VULNERABILITY

WordPress Plugin: defend-wp-firewall: CVE-2025-22280: Missing Authorization

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WordPress Plugin: defend-wp-firewall: CVE-2025-22280: Missing Authorization

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:P)
Published
02/24/2025
Created
05/16/2025
Added
05/15/2025
Modified
05/15/2025

Description

The DefendWP Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the defend_wp_firewall_verify_ajax_requests() function in versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute all of the plugin's AJAX requests.

Solution(s)

  • defend-wp-firewall-plugin-cve-2025-22280

References

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