Missing AuthorizationWeakness · CWE-862

CVE-2025-32258

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-04-04
Mitigation only
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62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

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 · unedited
Missing Authorization vulnerability in InfoGiants Simple Website Logo simple-website-logo allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Simple Website Logo: from n/a through <= 1.1.

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 confidence

The Simple Website Logo WordPress plugin <= 1.1 has a missing authorization vulnerability allowing attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels. This means the plugin fails to properly verify user permissions before allowing access to certain functionality, potentially letting unauthorized users perform actions they shouldn't be able to.

MitigationUpdate to the latest version of Simple Website Logo when available, or implement proper capability checks and authorization verification on all plugin functions and AJAX endpoints.

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Verify Simple Website Logo plugin is installed
    Check the WordPress plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/) for a folder named 'simple-website-logo' or 'simple-website-logo-lite', or look for the plugin in the WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed Plugins
    Affected if The plugin is present in the WordPress installation
  2. Determine the installed plugin version
    Open the main plugin PHP file (usually simple-website-logo.php) and locate the version comment at the top of the file, or check the plugin details in WordPress admin plugins list
    Affected if The version is 1.1 or lower, or if no version is displayed and the plugin appears unmaintained
  3. Inspect plugin PHP files for capability checks
    Examine the plugin's PHP files (especially AJAX handlers and admin functions) for proper authorization calls such as current_user_can(), check_ajax_referer(), or wp_verify_nonce() before executing sensitive operations
    Affected if No capability verification functions are found before actions that should require admin privileges
  4. Check AJAX endpoint authorization
    Search the plugin code for add_action('wp_ajax_...') calls and verify that each includes permission verification (current_user_can) or nonce validation before processing requests
    Affected if AJAX endpoints can be accessed and executed without authentication or authorization verification

Your environment is affected if the Simple Website Logo plugin is installed with version 1.1 or lower and the plugin code lacks proper capability checks on its AJAX endpoints or admin functions.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Update to the latest version of Simple Website Logo when available, or implement proper capability checks and authorization verification on all plugin functions and AJAX endpoints.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
14.0 hours of engineering $2,490
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