CVE-2025-12170CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2025-12170

Medium · published November 21, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Checkbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_checkbox_clean_log' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to clear log files.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00240 · 14.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2025-11-21T13:15Z
References (2)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3392710%40checkbox&new=3392710%40checkbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/16735e63-d652-4b0e-b454-2bd13368d8a7?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 NOV 07:31Z
    Checkbox <= 2.8.10 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Log Clearing
    cvelistv5