CVE-2025-24000 (GCVE-0-2025-24000)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-07 16:58
Modified
2025-08-29 03:10
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Summary
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in WPExperts Post SMTP allows Authentication Bypass.This issue affects Post SMTP: from n/a through 3.2.0.
References
audit@patchstack.comhttps://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/post-smtp/vulnerability/wordpress-post-smtp-3-2-0-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
Impacted products
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