CVE-2025-64257: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-64257 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability in the "My Tickets" WordPress plugin developed by Joe Dolson. It allows authenticated attackers with low privileges to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, classified under CWE-862. The vulnerability affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 2.1.0. It was published on December 9, 2025, and assigned by Patchstack. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 4.3 (Medium) (Feedly, Patchstack).

The root cause is a Missing Authorization flaw (CWE-862), where the plugin fails to properly verify whether a requesting user has the appropriate permissions before executing certain actions. This allows a low-privileged, authenticated attacker to interact with functionality or data that should be restricted to higher-privileged roles (e.g., administrators). The attack vector is network-based, requires low privileges, no user interaction, and has low attack complexity. No public proof-of-concept code has been identified at this time (Feedly, Patchstack).

Successful exploitation results in a limited integrity impact — an attacker can perform unauthorized actions within the plugin's functionality that should be restricted to higher-privileged users. There is no confidentiality or availability impact based on the CVSS assessment. The scope is limited to the affected WordPress installation, with no evidence of lateral movement potential or significant data exposure risk (Feedly).

There is no known public exploit code, active in-the-wild exploitation, or threat actor attribution associated with CVE-2025-64257 at this time. The EPSS score is approximately 0.017%, indicating a very low probability of exploitation in the near term. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog (Feedly).

Users should update the My Tickets WordPress plugin to a version beyond 2.1.0, which addresses the broken access control issue. Until a patch is confirmed available, site administrators should consider restricting plugin access to trusted users only and monitoring for unexpected changes to ticketing data or plugin settings. Reviewing WordPress user roles and minimizing the number of accounts with any plugin-level access is also recommended as a precautionary measure (Patchstack).