CVE-2025-1481CWE-862
Shortcode Cleaner Lite <= 1.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Export
Medium · published March 8, 2025
What it is
The Shortcode Cleaner Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the download_backup() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to export arbitrary options.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 6.5 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00329 · 24.8th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- Published
- 2025-03-08T02:24Z
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