CVE-2025-4047 (GCVE-0-2025-4047)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-03 02:27
Modified
2025-06-03 14:52
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Summary
The Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data access due to a missing capability check on the ajax_full_status and ajax_dashboard_status functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view the plugin's status.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/broken-link-checker/tags/2.4.2/legacy/core/core.php#L3272
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3294992/
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/33ac910c-9531-45ea-84cf-1d379233f7d3?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpmudev Broken Link Checker Version: *   ≤ 2.4.4
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