FKIE_CVE-2025-4202

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-16 13:16 - Updated: 2026-05-18 17:44
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Multicollab: Content Team Collaboration and Editorial Workflow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'cf_add_comment' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add comments to arbitrary collaborations.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/commenting-feature/tags/4.8.1/admin/classes/class-commenting-block-admin.php#L1239
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3519252/
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ec2376-dfe3-4aeb-8173-01e88309f540?source=cve
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  "lastModified": "2026-05-18T17:44:03.697",
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