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CVE-2025-49974:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-49974) was discovered in the UpStream: a Project Management Plugin for WordPress affecting versions through 2.1.0. The vulnerability was identified and reported by Nguyen Tran Tuan Dung (domiee13) on May 09, 2025, and was publicly disclosed on June 19, 2025 (Patchstack, Wiz).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) that allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in specific functions (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As the software appears to be abandoned (last updated over a year ago), the primary recommendation is to remove and replace the plugin with an alternative solution. No official fix is currently available (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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