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The Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering WordPress plugin before 2.4.12 does not verify that a PayPal payment notification genuinely originates from PayPal, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge a payment notification and mark their own order as paid and completed without making any payment.
The AI Website Builder WordPress plugin (GitHub build) 1.0.0 does not perform any authorisation or nonce check on its REST API routes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to install and activate plugins and themes, import content from a URL under their control, write a file of their choosing into the uploads directory, and delete site content and media. On a host that serves PHP from the uploads directory, that file write is remote code execution.
The ACPT (Premium) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.66. This is due to missing authorization in the submit() function, which allows unauthenticated form submissions to control the target user ID before calling wpupdateuser(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite any WordPress user's email address and password, including an administrator's, and take over the account. Successful exploitation requires a public ACPT user form that permits anonymous submissions.
The Pods WordPress plugin before 3.3.9.2 does not restrict which functions a display callback may resolve to, allowing users with the author role and above to read arbitrary files from the server, including files outside the web root. Only sites using the restricted display-callback mode are affected, which is the automatic default on installations whose first Pods version predates 3.1.
The Hummingbird Performance WordPress plugin before 3.21.2 does not restrict a network-wide setting to network administrators, allowing an administrator of any single site on a multisite network to execute arbitrary code across the entire network.
The Content Views WordPress plugin before 4.5.1.2 does not check whether the user requesting a view is allowed to read the posts it returns, allowing unauthenticated attackers to obtain the title and content of non-public posts, such as draft, pending, private and scheduled posts, when a view has been configured to include them.
The Classified Listing WordPress plugin before 6.1.1 does not verify that the caller owns or can edit the target listing before its AI image-editing AJAX action deletes or attaches media, allowing any authenticated user, including a subscriber, to permanently delete attachments from, and attach files to, any listing owned by another user.
LearnPress WordPress Plugin before 4.4.6 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with the Instructor role to inject persistent malicious payloads by submitting unsanitized input into quiz question answer title fields. Attackers can store arbitrary JavaScript through the answer title parameter, which is rendered through an unescaped HTML sink to execute in the browsers of any user who views the affected quiz question, including students, other instructors, and administrators.
LearnPress WordPress Plugin before 4.4.6 contains a broken object-level authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with the Instructor role to add answers to quiz questions owned by other instructors by exploiting a missing ownership check on the question answer insert path. Attackers can supply arbitrary question identifiers during answer insertion, bypassing instructor-boundary restrictions to persistently modify quiz content across courses they do not own.
Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in JobSearch <= 3.2.0 versions.
Unauthenticated SQL Injection in GeoDirectory <= 2.8.174 versions.
Subscriber Broken Access Control in Agentimus – AI SEO, llms.txt & MCP for AI Agents <= 1.51.0 versions.
Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Breadcrumb NavXT <= 7.5.1 versions.
Unauthenticated Broken Access Control in WPFunnels <= 3.12.13 versions.
Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Under Construction <= 5.82 versions.
The Ajaxify Comments WordPress plugin before 3.2 is vulnerable to HTTP Header Injection due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied data. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers.
The Developer Tools WordPress plugin through 1.1.3 contains an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the bundled SWFUpload component
The Restrict User Access WordPress plugin before 2.8.1 does not normalise the REST API route before checking it against the routes its content protection covers, allowing unauthenticated users to bypass that protection and read restricted content and enumerate users.
Unauthenticated Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Simply Schedule Appointments <= 1.6.12.23 versions.
Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in Ninja Forms - Layout & Styles <= 3.0.31 versions.
Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in TrustedSite <= 1.2.5 versions.
Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Upsell Order Bump Offer for WooCommerce <= 3.1.5 versions.
The OAuth Single Sign On WordPress plugin before 7.0.1 does not verify the identity assertion returned by its Steam single sign-on flow, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as an arbitrary non-administrator user, and to create new accounts.
The FAQ Builder AYS WordPress plugin before 1.8.5 does not sanitize or escape content submitted by unauthenticated visitors before storing it and outputting it in an admin area page, and the escaping it does apply is undone by a subsequent decoding step, leading to Stored XSS which will execute in the context of a logged in administrator.
The MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.7.46 does not properly verify ownership of quiz question identifiers, allowing users with instructor access to read other instructors' quiz questions, including the correct answers and explanations.
The FormLayer WordPress plugin before 1.0.9 does not perform any authorization check before returning a form's full stored configuration in the response to its public submission handler, allowing unauthenticated users to disclose notification recipient addresses, confirmation redirect targets and integration settings, including those of unpublished forms.
The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 does not escape the post title before outputting it in an inline JavaScript event handler, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which are triggered when a visitor interacts with the affected button. Exploitation requires the Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 to be running a non-default icon display configuration.
The WP File Download plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the delete function in all versions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). The two-stage exploit requires a first request to the file.save task to persist the path-traversal string into file metadata, followed by a second request to the file.delete task to trigger the unlink call — both endpoints lack capability checks and nonce enforcement.
The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass leading to Administrator Account Takeover in versions up to, and including, 4.8.0. This is due to improper identity verification during the public registration flow in WordPress Multisite environments, where the plugin binds new Simple Membership records to existing global WordPress users based solely on matching username and email, without requiring password verification or ownership proof, and fails to properly detect Administrator roles on child sites. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to take over Administrator accounts on child sites in a Multisite network by registering a Simple Membership account with a victim's credentials on a site where public registration is enabled, then updating the victim's global WordPress password through the profile edit functionality. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 4.8.1.
The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'email' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The payload reaches administrators with the manageoptions capability when they visit the Users > Unconfirmed Email Addresses list table and interact with row-action links, as the poisoned javascript: href is rendered verbatim into the page HTML by rowactions().