CVE-2025-12014 (GCVE-0-2025-12014)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-24 08:24
Modified
2025-10-24 12:30
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The NGINX Cache Optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'nginxcacheoptimizer-blacklist-update' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add URLs to the Exclude URLs From Dynamic Caching setting.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
getclouder NGINX Cache Optimizer Version: *   ≤ 1.1
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