CVE-2025-12898 (GCVE-0-2025-12898)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-20 03:20 – Updated: 2025-12-20 03:20
VLAI?
Title
Pretty Google Calendar <= 2.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Google API Key Exposure
Summary
The Pretty Google Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the pgcal_ajax_handler() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the Google API key set in the plugin's settings.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lbell | Pretty Google Calendar |
Affected:
* , ≤ 2.0.0
(semver)
|
Credits
Ahmad Salem
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