Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-48257

CVE-2025-48257:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in Projectopia WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 5.1.17. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 19, 2025, and is identified as CVE-2025-48257. The issue allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels in the Projectopia plugin (Patchstack, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium severity) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. 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) and integrity (I:N), but high impact on availability (A:H) (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability primarily affects the availability of the system, with a high impact rating in this category. While confidentiality and integrity remain unaffected, the broken access control issue could allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to Projectopia version 5.1.18 or later to remediate this vulnerability. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

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Source: This report was generated using AI

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