CVE-2025-62132: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-62132 is a Missing Authorization (Broken Access Control) vulnerability in the Tasty Recipes Lite WordPress plugin developed by Strategy11 Team. It affects all versions from n/a through 1.1.5 and allows low-privileged authenticated users to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels. The vulnerability was published on December 31, 2025, and assigned by Patchstack. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) (NVD, Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), meaning the plugin fails to properly verify whether an authenticated user has the appropriate permissions before executing certain actions. An attacker with a low-privileged WordPress account (e.g., Subscriber role) can send crafted network requests to trigger functionality that should be restricted to higher-privileged roles. The attack vector is network-accessible, requires no user interaction, and has low attack complexity, making it straightforward to exploit once authenticated (NVD, Patchstack).

Successful exploitation results in a limited availability impact — an authenticated low-privileged user can disrupt or degrade plugin functionality, potentially affecting recipe content served by the plugin. There is no confidentiality or integrity impact per the CVSS scoring, meaning sensitive data exposure and content modification are not directly enabled by this vulnerability. The scope is unchanged, limiting the blast radius to the affected WordPress installation rather than enabling broader lateral movement (NVD).

No public proof-of-concept exploit code or in-the-wild exploitation has been reported for CVE-2025-62132. The EPSS score is approximately 0.036%, indicating a very low probability of exploitation in the near term. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Exploitation requires a valid low-privileged account on the target WordPress site, which limits opportunistic mass exploitation (NVD).

WordPress site administrators should update the Tasty Recipes Lite plugin to a version beyond 1.1.5 if a patched release is available from Strategy11 Team. If no patched version is yet available, consider temporarily deactivating the plugin until a fix is released. Restricting site registration and limiting the number of low-privileged user accounts can reduce the attack surface in the interim (Patchstack).