CVE-2025-58659
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability (CVE-2025-58659) was discovered in Essekia Helpie FAQ WordPress plugin affecting versions through 1.39. The vulnerability was disclosed on September 22, 2025, and was identified by security researcher Legion Hunter (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials) and received a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.3 (Medium). The vulnerability vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, indicating that it is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, and requires no user interaction (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthorized access to retrieve embedded sensitive data. This could enable malicious actors to view sensitive information that is normally not available to regular users, potentially leading to further system exploitation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of September 26, 2025, no official fix has been made available for this vulnerability. The issue affects versions up to 1.40 of the Helpie FAQ plugin (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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