CVE-2025-1304
The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.1.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.06%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.06% probability · 63th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- spicethemes/newsblogger
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2.5.5/functions.php?annotate=blame&rev=269615#file2Product
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L440Product
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L461Product
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L470Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/85cea6b5-d57b-495e-a504-a0c1ba691637?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.