CVE-2025-62893
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability (CVE-2025-62893) affects Create by Mediavine plugin (mediavine-create) versions through 1.9.14. The vulnerability was disclosed on October 26, 2025 and allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (High) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N. This indicates the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs low privileges, requires no user interaction, has unchanged scope, and can impact both confidentiality and integrity at high levels, while not affecting availability (NVD, AttackerKB).

Impact

The vulnerability can lead to high impacts on both confidentiality and integrity of the affected systems, potentially allowing attackers to bypass authorization controls and access protected resources (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade Create by Mediavine plugin to a version newer than 1.9.14 once available (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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