Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-39498

CVE-2025-39498:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A sensitive data exposure vulnerability (CVE-2025-39498) was discovered in the WordPress Spotlight - Social Media Feeds Premium plugin, affecting versions up to 1.7.1. The vulnerability was initially reported on January 21, 2025, by security researcher Abdi Pranata and was publicly disclosed on May 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data (CWE-201) issue. It received a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, indicating that it is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, and needs no privileges or user interaction to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to view sensitive information that is normally not accessible to regular users. This exposed data could potentially be leveraged to exploit other weaknesses in the system (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.7.2 of the Spotlight - Social Media Feeds Premium plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.7.2 or later to remediate the security issue (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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