CVE-2025-8147

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-285 Improper Authorization

Publication date:

29/08/2025

Last modified:

29/08/2025

Description

The LWSCache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to improper authorization on the lwscache_activatePlugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate arbitrary whitelisted LWS plugins.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lwscache/tags/2.8.5/lwscache.php#L401
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3352047/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/lwscache/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01a6a5bf-636b-416c-86fa-43f639624e80?source=cve