CVE-2025-24763
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Missing Authorization vulnerability identified in Pascal Casier bbPress API plugin affecting versions through 1.0.14. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by security researcher ch4r0n on April 29, 2025, and publicly disclosed on June 6, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) or user interaction (UI:N). The scope is unchanged (S:U) with low confidentiality impact (C:L) and no impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels, potentially enabling unauthorized access to protected functionality. This broken access control issue could lead to unprivileged users executing certain higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue affects bbPress API versions through 1.0.14 (Patchstack).

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