🛡️ CVE-2023-5425
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pmdm_wp_change_user_meta and pmdm_wp_change_post_meta functions in versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to gain elevated (e.g., administrator) privileges.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-28
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
post-meta-data-manager 1.2.1

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