CVE-2025-7040 (GCVE-0-2025-7040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-06 03:22 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:54
VLAI
Title
Cloud SAML SSO <= 1.0.19 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Modification via set_organization_settings Action
Summary
The Cloud SAML SSO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'set_organization_settings' action of the csso_handle_actions() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.19. The handler reads client-supplied POST parameters for organization settings and passes them directly to update_option() without any check of the user’s capabilities or a CSRF nonce. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change critical configuration (including toggling signing and encryption), potentially breaking the SSO flow and causing a denial-of-service.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-08 20:18 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
cloudinfrastructureservices Cloud SAML SSO – Single Sign On Login Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0.19 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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