CVE-2025-23785
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in AI Responsive Gallery Album WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 1.4. The vulnerability was identified on January 16, 2025, and assigned CVE-2025-23785. The issue allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (MITRE CVE, Patchstack Database).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue with a CVSS score of 4.3 (Low severity). The security flaw stems from a missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token check in a function that could allow unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack Database).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow unprivileged users to perform actions that should be restricted to users with higher privileges. While the severity is rated as low, it represents a security risk to the affected WordPress installations (Patchstack Database).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the vulnerability disclosure, no official fix is available for this security issue. Given the low severity impact and unlikely exploitation potential, the immediate risk is considered minimal (Patchstack Database).

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