CVE-2025-58246: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-58246 is a sensitive data exposure vulnerability discovered in WordPress that allows retrieval of embedded sensitive data. The vulnerability was disclosed on September 23, 2025, affecting multiple WordPress versions from 4.7 through 6.8.2. This security issue requires contributor-level privileges to exploit and has been classified as a low-severity vulnerability (NVD, Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-201 (Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data). It has received 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:L/I:N/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs low privileges, requires no user interaction, has unchanged scope, and only impacts confidentiality at a low level (Patchstack).

The vulnerability allows authenticated users with contributor-level access to view sensitive information that is normally not available to regular users. This exposed data could potentially be used to exploit other weaknesses in the system (Patchstack).

WordPress has released version 6.8.3 to address this vulnerability. Users are recommended to update to version 6.8.3 or later to remove the vulnerability. The WordPress Core security team has acknowledged the issue and implemented the fix in this security release (WordPress).