CVE-2025-5018 Missing authorization in Hive Support | AI-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat and Chatbot
Authenticated subscribers can read and modify AI chat settings and API keys due to missing capability checks in the Hive Support 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-2025-5018?
CVE-2025-5018 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in hivesupport Hive Support | AI-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat and Chatbot, published on 6 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Hive Support plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the hs_update_ai_chat_settings() and hive_lite_support_get_all_binbox() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read and overwrite the site’s OpenAI API key and inspection data or modify AI-chat prompts and behavior. This vulnerability is potentially a duplicate of CVE-2025-32208 or/and CVE-2025-32242.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5018?
How do I fix CVE-2025-5018?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5018 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-2025-5018 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5018 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3hw7-239v-hfv6.