CVE-2025-39554
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 Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP AI Text to Speech ai-text-to-speech allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects AI Text to Speech: from n/a through <= 3.0.3.
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 confidenceThe RelyWP AI Text to Speech WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.0.3) contains a missing authorization vulnerability allowing attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels. This broken access control issue enables unauthorized users to perform actions that should require proper authentication and authorization privileges.
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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
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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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Confirm plugin installation and active statusNavigate to WordPress admin dashboard > Plugins, or inspect the filesystem at wp-content/plugins/ for a folder containing 'relywp' or 'ai-text-to-speech'. Check if the plugin appears in the installed plugins list and whether it is activated.Affected if The RelyWP AI Text to Speech plugin is installed and active on the WordPress site.
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Determine installed plugin versionAccess the plugin file (typically plugins/relywp-ai-text-to-speech/relywp-ai-text-to-speech.php) and locate the version header in the plugin comment block, or check the WordPress Plugins admin page where version numbers are displayed.Affected if The installed version is 3.0.3 or any earlier version (up to and including 3.0.3).
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Identify accessible endpoints without authenticationReview plugin PHP files in the plugin directory for AJAX handlers (wp_ajax_ hooks), admin pages, or REST API routes. Check if these endpoints perform sensitive operations (such as generating speech, modifying settings, or accessing data) without first calling current_user_can() or checking user capabilities.Affected if Sensitive AJAX actions, admin pages, or API endpoints exist that lack capability checks (current_user_can) or nonce validation.
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Audit user role and capability assignmentsIf the plugin creates or modifies custom roles or capabilities, inspect the plugin activation/deactivation hooks for role definitions. Use a user role editor plugin or query wp_roles and wp_usermeta tables to list capabilities assigned to roles like Subscriber or Contributor.Affected if Lower-privileged user roles (Subscriber, Contributor, or unauthenticated users) have capabilities that should be restricted to Administrators only.
A user is affected if the RelyWP AI Text to Speech plugin version 3.0.3 or lower is installed and active, and sensitive operations or endpoints lack 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 the plugin to the latest patched version and implement proper authorization checks for all sensitive operations, verifying user capabilities before executing privileged actions.
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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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