CVE-2025-31630
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in themeton The Business WordPress theme affecting versions through 1.6.1. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 16, 2025 and assigned CVE-2025-31630. The issue allows attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control 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) and No user interaction (UI:N). The scope is Unchanged (S:U) with No impact on confidentiality (C:N), Low impact on integrity (I:L), and No impact on availability (A:N) (Wiz).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in specific functions (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix is currently available for this vulnerability. Given the low severity impact, virtual patching has been deemed unnecessary (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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