CVE-2025-54047
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in QuanticaLabs Cost Calculator WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 7.4. The vulnerability was reported on July 9, 2025, and publicly disclosed on July 16, 2025. This security issue is related to broken access control that allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium), and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The issue requires subscriber-level privileges to exploit and falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A1: Broken Access Control (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability represents a broken access control issue where an unprivileged user could potentially execute certain higher privileged actions. The impact is considered low severity, with potential integrity impacts but no direct confidentiality or availability compromises (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 7.5 of the Cost Calculator plugin. Users are advised to update to version 7.5 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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