CVE-2025-13342 Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.28.20 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update
Unauthenticated attackers can modify critical WordPress options like admin email and default role, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-13342?
CVE-2025-13342 is a critical missing authorization vulnerability in shabti Frontend Admin by DynamiApps, published on 3 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of arbitrary WordPress options in all versions up to, and including, 3.28.20. This is due to insufficient capability checks and input validation in the ActionOptions::run() save handler. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify critical WordPress options such as users_can_register, default_role, and admin_email via submitting crafted form data to public frontend forms.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13342?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13342?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13342 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-2025-13342 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-13342 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template and 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jrmh-5jvc-v3h9.