# CVE-2025-3452: SecuPress Free <= 2.3.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation

> Authenticated subscribers can install arbitrary plugins due to missing capability checks, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

- **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:** 29 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xp82-r324-2w4v

## What is CVE-2025-3452?

CVE-2025-3452 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security, published on 29 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The SecuPress Free — WordPress Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'secupress_reinstall_plugins_admin_ajax_cb' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3452?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Secupress Secupress.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-3452?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3452 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-3452 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security

- [CVE-2025-30907](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30907/): WordPress SecuPress Free plugin <= 2.2.5.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-9019](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9019/): Cross-site scripting in SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-1504](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1504/): SecuPress Free — WordPress Security <= 2.2.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Banned IP Address (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-3452 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-3452 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security, published on 29 Apr 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-2025-3452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SecuPress with Simple SSL – Simple and Performant Security. 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-2025-3452/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3452/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3452
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3452
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-3452

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3452/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.