# CVE-2025-5835: Droip <= 2.2.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Many Actions

> Authenticated subscribers can modify posts, settings, and users due to missing capability checks in the Droip WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** 25 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h7f2-69qh-3xqc

## What is CVE-2025-5835?

CVE-2025-5835 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Droip, published on 25 Jul 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Droip plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and access of data due to a missing capability check on the droip_post_apis() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform many actions as the AJAX hooks to several functions. Some potential impacts include arbitrary post deletion, arbitrary post creation, post duplication, settings update, user manipulation, and much more.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5835?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Themeum Droip.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-5835?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5835 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5835 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5835 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Droip

- [CVE-2024-43955](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43955/): WordPress Droip plugin <= 1.1.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download/Deletion vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2025-5831](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5831/): Droip < 2.5.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-43954](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43954/): WordPress Droip plugin <= 1.1.1 - Subscriber+ Settings Change/Data Exposure Vulnerability (medium 6.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5835 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5835 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Droip, published on 25 Jul 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-2025-5835 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Droip. 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-2025-5835/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5835/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5835
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5835
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5835

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5835/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.