CVE-2025-30767
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was identified in add-ons.org PDF for WPForms plugin versions through 5.3.0. The vulnerability was discovered on March 13, 2025, and publicly disclosed on March 26, 2025. This security issue allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and has received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The issue specifically relates to broken access control, where there is a missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token check in a function that could allow an unprivileged user to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack, NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact. It allows authenticated users with Subscriber or higher privileges to perform arbitrary shortcode execution, potentially leading to unauthorized actions within the WordPress installation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.3.1 of the PDF for WPForms plugin. Users are advised to update to version 5.3.1 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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