CVE-2025-5190 (GCVE-0-2025-5190)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-30 11:15
Modified
2025-05-30 12:16
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sorich87 Browse As Version: *   ≤ 0.2
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