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GHSA-Q975-8HH3-M9WJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-07 06:30 – Updated: 2025-06-07 06:30

Details

The Profiler – What Slowing Down Your WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wpsd_plugin_control() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reactivate previously deactivated plugins after accessing the "Profiler" page.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2025-5814 (GCVE-0-2025-5814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-07 04:22 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:11

Title

Profiler – What Slowing Down Your WP <= 1.0.0 - Missing Authentication to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Reactivation via State Restoration

Summary

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/profil…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	switcorp	Profiler – What Slowing Down Your WP	Affected: * , ≤ 1.0.0 (semver)

Credits

ch4r0n

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-Q975-8HH3-M9WJ

CVE-2025-5814 (GCVE-0-2025-5814)

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