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CVE-2025-47469:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-47469) was discovered in the Media Hygiene WordPress plugin versions up to 4.0.0. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 7, 2025, and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack, NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium). 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 low impacts on integrity (I:L) and availability (A:L), but no impact on confidentiality (C:N) (Patchstack).
Impact
The broken access control vulnerability could allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions. The vulnerability has a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to Media Hygiene version 4.0.1 or later to remediate this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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