CVE-2025-9029 (GCVE-0-2025-9029)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-04 02:24
Modified
2025-10-06 15:53
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 WDesignKit – Elementor & Gutenberg Starter Templates, Patterns, Cloud Workspace & Widget Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to missing authorization via the wdkit_handle_review_submission function in versions less than, or equal to, 1.2.16. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit feedback data to external services.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wdesignkit/tags/1.2.17/includes/admin/notices/class-wdkit-review-form.php#L117
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e89f0699-42be-403a-8cdb-31e214a85851?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
posimyththemes WDesignKit – Elementor & Gutenberg Starter Templates, Patterns, Cloud Workspace & Widget Builder Version: *   ≤ 1.2.16
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