CVE-2025-48275
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-48275) was discovered in dastan800 Visual Header plugin affecting versions through 1.3. The vulnerability was disclosed on May 23, 2025, and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a broken access control issue, which refers to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in functions that could allow unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L and is identified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability is considered moderately dangerous and is expected to become exploited. It could allow unprivileged users to perform actions that should be restricted to users with higher privileges (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.5 of the Visual Header plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.5 or later immediately. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).

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