CVE-2025-48339
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 activity-log.com Profiler - What Slowing Down Your WP allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects Profiler - What Slowing Down Your WP: from n/a through 1.0.0.
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 confidenceThis is a missing authorization vulnerability in the WordPress plugin 'Profiler - What Slowing Down Your WP' by activity-log.com. The plugin fails to properly enforce authorization checks on certain functionality, allowing authenticated attackers to access sensitive profiler data or administrative functions they should not have access to due to incorrectly configured access control security levels.
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 the Profiler plugin is installedCheck WordPress plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/) for a folder containing 'profiler' or check via WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed PluginsAffected if The plugin 'Profiler - What Slowing Down Your WP' by activity-log.com is present and active
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Check the installed plugin versionIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and locate the Profiler plugin version number, or read the main plugin PHP file header for the Version fieldAffected if The installed version is older than the version containing proper authorization fixes (compare against the vendor's release notes)
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Inspect plugin endpoints for capability checksReview the plugin PHP files for current_user_can() calls before sensitive operations, particularly in files handling profiler data retrieval or administrative functionsAffected if Profiler functionality or data endpoints lack proper current_user_can() or role-based capability checks
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Test authorization with a low-privilege userCreate a WordPress user with Subscriber (or similar low) role, log in as that user, and attempt to access profiler plugin URLs or functions that should be restricted to administratorsAffected if A low-privilege authenticated user can access sensitive profiler data or administrative functions they should not reach
A user is affected if the Profiler plugin is installed and allows authenticated users with insufficient privileges to access sensitive profiler data or administrative functions due to missing authorization checks.
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 dataImplement proper authorization checks and role-based access controls (RBAC) on all plugin endpoints and functions. Verify that only users with appropriate privileges can access profiler functionality and sensitive data.
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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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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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-48339 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- 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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