CVE-2025-2719
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Swatchly – WooCommerce Variation Swatches for Products plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2025-2719) due to a missing capability check in the ajax_dismiss function, affecting versions 1.2.8 to 1.4.0. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on April 10, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from a missing authorization check in the ajax_dismiss function, which allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level access or higher to modify option values on the WordPress site. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N. The weakness is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows attackers to update option values to 1/true on the WordPress site. This can be exploited to create errors that deny access to legitimate users or manipulate certain settings like registration options (NVD).

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