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CVE-2025-2780: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Woffice Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Woffice Theme, contains a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-2780) discovered in April 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 5.4.21, allowing authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to perform arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'saveFeaturedImage' function (NVD Database).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient file type validation in the 'saveFeaturedImage' function within the Woffice Core plugin. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 CRITICAL (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The weakness is classified as CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type) (NVD Database).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level privileges or higher to upload arbitrary files to the affected site's server. This capability could potentially lead to remote code execution, compromising the entire WordPress installation (NVD Database).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was patched in version 5.4.22, released on April 1st, 2025. Users are strongly advised to update to this version or later to protect their installations (Woffice Changelog).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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