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CVE-2025-52731:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-52731) was discovered in WordPress Event Manager, Event Calendar and Booking Plugin affecting versions through 4.0.24. The vulnerability was disclosed on August 13, 2025, and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (High) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N. The weakness is categorized as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization). The vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated users with subscriber-level privileges (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability allows malicious actors to perform arbitrary content deletion on affected websites. This could result in the unauthorized deletion of various content types including pictures, posts, or pages (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been patched in version 4.0.25 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 4.0.25 or later immediately. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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