# CVE-2025-22787: WordPress Button Block plugin <= 1.1.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

> Attackers can access restricted functionality in the Button Block WordPress plugin due to missing authorization checks.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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:** 15 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xgr3-26hm-39gg

## What is CVE-2025-22787?

CVE-2025-22787 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in bPlugins Button Block, published on 15 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in bPlugins Button Block button-block allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Button Block: from n/a through <= 1.1.5.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22787?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bplugins Button Block.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22787?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22787 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-22787 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22787 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in bPlugins Button Block

- [CVE-2025-22815](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22815/): WordPress Button Block plugin <= 1.1.9 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-12560](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12560/): Information disclosure in Button Block – Design Stylish, Interactive, and Multi-Functional Buttons (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-10671](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10671/): Information disclosure in Button Block – Design Stylish, Interactive, and Multi-Functional Buttons (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22787 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22787 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in bPlugins Button Block, published on 15 Jan 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-2025-22787 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: bPlugins Button Block. 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-2025-22787/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22787/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22787
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22787
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22787

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22787/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.