CVE-2025-2821

medium

Description

The Search Exclude plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the get_rest_permission function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings, excluding content from search results.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1f72a309-8ef8-4943-8e64-38bb7909397a?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284798/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/search-exclude/tags/2.4.6/lib/api/entities/settings/class-post.php#L42

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-07

Updated: 2025-05-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00034