CVE-2025-39535
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability was discovered in appsbd Vitepos affecting versions through 3.1.7. The vulnerability allows Authentication Abuse and was disclosed on April 17, 2025 (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified with CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel). It received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.2 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious actors to perform actions which normally should only be executed by higher privileged users. These actions might allow the malicious actor to gain admin access to the website (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.1.8. Users are advised to update to version 3.1.8 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking any attacks until users have updated to a fixed version (Patchstack).

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