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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-62017
CVE-2025-62017:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-62017) was identified in the Kallyas WordPress theme developed by hogash. The vulnerability affects versions through 4.22.0 and was discovered on October 16, 2025. This security issue was reported by security researcher Rafie Muhammad through the Patchstack vulnerability disclosure program (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium). The vulnerability vector is described as CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and requiring low privileges (NIST NVD).
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
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.23.0 of the Kallyas theme. Users are advised to update to version 4.23.0 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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