CVE-2025-49971
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-49971) was discovered in aThemeArt Translations eDS Responsive Menu WordPress plugin versions up to 1.2. The vulnerability was disclosed on June 19, 2025, and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD, Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and requiring low privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unprivileged users to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization checks. The impact is considered low severity with potential for information disclosure (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix is currently available as the software appears to be abandoned, having not received updates for over a year. The recommended mitigation is to remove and replace the plugin with an alternative solution (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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