CVE-2025-2276 Missing authorization in Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard
Authenticated subscribers can activate or deactivate plugin modules due to missing capability checks in the Ultimate Dashboard WordPress plugin.
- 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-2025-2276?
CVE-2025-2276 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in davidvongries Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard, published on 25 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the handle_module_actions function in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate/deactivate plugin modules.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2276?
How do I fix CVE-2025-2276?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2276 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-2025-2276 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2276 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2phh-fpc3-4x9w.