CVE Alert: CVE-2025-5190
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-5190
The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the ‘IS_BA_Browse_As::notice’ function with the ‘is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH’ cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
5/30/2025, 12:15:21 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedEPS Score: 0.0006 | Ranking EPS: 0.18949
References:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L115
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L92
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5722b0-0d54-4c44-b168-a886da1077cb?source=cve
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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