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GHSA-XP67-RFWJ-P4W6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-30 12:31 – Updated: 2025-05-30 12:31

Details

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.

Severity ?

8.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2025-5190 (GCVE-0-2025-5190)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-30 11:15 – Updated: 2025-05-30 12:16

Title

Browse As <= 0.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authentication Bypass via Cookie

Summary

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

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	sorich87	Browse As	Affected: * , ≤ 0.2 (semver)

Credits

István Márton

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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-XP67-RFWJ-P4W6

CVE-2025-5190 (GCVE-0-2025-5190)

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