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CVE-2025-26955: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-26955) was discovered in VW Themes Industrial Lite WordPress theme versions through 1.0.8. The vulnerability allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels. The issue was disclosed on April 10, 2025, and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited over the network, requires low attack complexity, needs low privileges, requires no user interaction, and has a limited impact on availability (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability represents a broken access control issue where unprivileged users could potentially execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The issue is considered low priority and virtual patching has been deemed unnecessary (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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