CVE-2025-5811 (GCVE-0-2025-5811)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-18 05:24 – Updated: 2025-07-18 14:00
VLAI?
Title
Listly: Listicles For WordPress <= 2.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Transient Deletion
Summary
The Listly: Listicles For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the Init() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary transient values on the WordPress site.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
milanmk Listly: Listicles For WordPress Affected: * , ≤ 2.7 (semver)
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Credits
ch4r0n
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