CVE-2025-39583
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Missing Authorization vulnerability in BERTHA AI WordPress plugin affects versions through 1.12.10.2. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on April 17, 2025, allowing exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) 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 high impact on availability (A:H) (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with subscriber-level access to perform arbitrary content deletion on the affected website, potentially removing pictures, posts, or pages (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 1.12.11 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack).

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