CVE-2025-12449 Missing authorization in aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder
Authenticated subscribers can modify plugin settings and read sensitive API keys due to missing capability checks in AJAX actions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12449?
CVE-2025-12449 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in kodezen aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder, published on 7 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The aBlocks – WordPress Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and disclosure of sensitive information due to missing capability checks on multiple AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to read plugin settings including block visibility, maintenance mode configuration, and third-party email marketing API keys, as well as read sensitive configuration data including API keys for email marketing services.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12449?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12449?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12449 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-12449 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12449 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-943g-jpq4-jf4f.