The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-3417 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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New CVE Received
by [email protected]Apr. 10, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description The Embedder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the ajax_set_global_option() function in versions 1.3 to 1.3.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Added CWE CWE-862 Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedder/trunk/emb-admin-ajax.php#L41 Added Reference https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa86bcb9-e558-4b60-9473-65cd6f9663fd?source=cve