CVE-2025-62145: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-62145 is a Missing Authorization (Broken Access Control) vulnerability in the NewClarity DMCA Protection Badge WordPress plugin. It affects all versions from n/a through 2.2.0 and allows unauthenticated network attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, resulting in unauthorized data modification. The vulnerability was published on December 31, 2025, and assigned by Patchstack. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (Medium) (Feedly, Patchstack).

The root cause is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), meaning the plugin fails to properly verify whether a requesting user has the necessary permissions before executing sensitive operations. The attack vector is network-based, requires no authentication, no user interaction, and has low attack complexity — making it trivially exploitable by any remote attacker. The flaw stems from incorrectly configured access control security levels within the plugin's functionality, allowing unauthorized actors to perform actions that should be restricted to privileged users (Feedly, Patchstack).

Successful exploitation results in a low-level integrity compromise on the affected WordPress site — an unauthenticated attacker can modify data managed by the DMCA Protection Badge plugin without authorization. Confidentiality and availability are not directly impacted according to the CVSS assessment. The scope is limited to the affected plugin's functionality, but unauthorized modification of DMCA badge settings could undermine the site's copyright protection posture (Feedly).

No public proof-of-concept exploit code or in-the-wild exploitation has been reported for CVE-2025-62145. The EPSS score is approximately 0.028% (0.000280), indicating a very low probability of exploitation in the near term. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No threat actor attribution has been identified (Feedly).

Users should update the DMCA Protection Badge WordPress plugin to version 2.2.1 or later, which addresses the missing authorization flaw. No specific configuration-based workaround has been published; upgrading is the recommended and primary remediation step. Site administrators should audit recent plugin activity logs for any unauthorized changes to DMCA badge settings if they were running version 2.2.0 or earlier (Feedly, Patchstack).