CVE-2025-13880
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe WP Social Ninja – Embed Social Feeds, Customer Reviews, Chat Widgets (Google Reviews, YouTube Feed, Photo Feeds, and More) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the getAdvanceSettings and saveAdvanceSettings functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view and modify plugin's advanced settings.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe WP Social Ninja WordPress plugin lacks capability checks on the getAdvanceSettings and saveAdvanceSettings functions, allowing unauthenticated users to access and modify advanced plugin settings. This is a Broken Access Control (CWE-862) vulnerability where AJAX actions are exposed without verifying user permissions.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if WP Social Ninja plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'WP Social Ninja' or check the wp-content/plugins directory for a folder named 'wp-social-ninja'Affected if The plugin is present in the WordPress installation
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Check installed version of WP Social NinjaIn WordPress admin > Plugins, find WP Social Ninja and note the version number displayed, or inspect the main plugin file header for the 'Version' fieldAffected if Version is lower than 4.0.2 (the patched version)
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Verify AJAX endpoints are accessible without authenticationSend a direct POST request to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with action=wp_ajax_getAdvanceSettings or action=wp_ajax_ninja_admin_ajax without including valid authentication cookies or nonce tokensAffected if The AJAX calls return valid JSON responses instead of requiring login or returning authentication errors
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Confirm the saveAdvanceSettings AJAX action accepts unauthenticated requestsSend a POST request to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with action=wp_ajax_saveAdvanceSettings or action=ninja_admin_ajax with arbitrary plugin settings data, without being logged inAffected if The request succeeds and returns a success response rather than a 403 or authentication error
A user is affected if the WP Social Ninja plugin is installed with a version lower than 4.0.2 AND the AJAX actions getAdvanceSettings and saveAdvanceSettings respond to unauthenticated requests without requiring capability verification.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply vendor patch (upgrade to version 4.0.2 or later). If no patch available, disable the plugin or add temporary firewall rules to block unauthorized access to the affected AJAX endpoints until a fix is released.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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