CVE-2025-28985
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 · uneditedMissing Authorization vulnerability in Elastic Email Elastic Email Subscribe Form elastic-email-subscribe-form allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Elastic Email Subscribe Form: from n/a through <= 1.2.2.
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 · moderate confidenceA missing authorization vulnerability in the Elastic Email Subscribe Form WordPress plugin (versions up to 1.2.2) allows attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, potentially enabling unauthorized actions due to improper permission checks in the plugin's subscription or form handling functionality.
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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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
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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Verify plugin installation and versionCheck the installed version of Elastic Email Subscribe Form plugin in WordPress (typically in the plugin's main file header or readme.txt). Compare against affected versions up to 1.2.2.Affected if The plugin is installed and the version is 1.2.2 or lower.
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Identify plugin entry pointsLocate the plugin's main PHP file and examine which PHP files handle subscription or form handling functionality (look for functions processing form submissions, email subscriptions, or user data.Affected if The plugin contains subscription or form handling code without proper capability checks.
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Inspect permission checks in vulnerable functionsReview the subscription/form handling code for current_user_can() or similar authorization calls. Check if admin actions can be reached without authentication or with subscriber-level privileges.Affected if No authorization checks exist, or checks only verify user login without verifying appropriate capability/role.
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Test form submission accessibilityIf possible, submit a request to the plugin's form handler endpoint using an unauthenticated or low-privilege account (subscriber role). Observe if the request is processed without rejection.Affected if Form submissions from unauthenticated or low-privilege users are accepted and processed.
The environment is affected if the Elastic Email Subscribe Form plugin is installed at version 1.2.2 or lower and the subscription/form handling functionality lacks proper capability checks, allowing unauthorized access.
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 dataUpdate to a patched version of Elastic Email Subscribe Form that implements proper authorization checks, or remove the plugin if no update is available.
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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
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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