# CVE-2025-14618: Sweet Energy Efficiency <= 1.0.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Graph Deletion

> Authenticated subscribers can read, modify, and delete arbitrary graphs due to missing capability checks in the Sweet Energy Efficiency WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hxxh-p5qx-c9xc

## What is CVE-2025-14618?

CVE-2025-14618 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpdirectorykit Sweet Energy Efficiency, published on 18 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Sweet Energy Efficiency plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access, modification, and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'sweet_energy_efficiency_action' AJAX handler in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to read, modify, and delete arbitrary graphs.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14618?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-14618?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14618 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14618 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14618 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14618 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14618 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpdirectorykit Sweet Energy Efficiency, published on 18 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14618 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpdirectorykit Sweet Energy Efficiency. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14618/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14618/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14618
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14618
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14618

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14618/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.