Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-46527

CVE-2025-46527:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Web3Press WordPress plugin (versions <= 3.2.0) contains an Authenticated Arbitrary File Read vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-46527. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher ch4r0n from FPT Software and was publicly disclosed on May 2, 2025. This security issue affects the Web3Press – Decentralize Publishing with Writing NFT plugin (Patchstack, Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium severity) and is classified under the OWASP Top 10 category A1: Broken Access Control. The security flaw requires Contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit, allowing authenticated users to perform arbitrary file read operations on the affected WordPress installations (Patchstack, Wiz).

Impact

This vulnerability could enable malicious actors to download any file from the affected website, including sensitive files containing login credentials or backup files. The impact is considered moderately dangerous and the vulnerability is expected to become actively exploited (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 3.3.0 of the Web3Press plugin. Users are advised to update to version 3.3.0 or later immediately to resolve the vulnerability. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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