# CVE-2025-62973: WordPress BuddyForms plugin <= 2.10.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

> An attacker can access restricted functionality in the BuddyForms WordPress plugin due to missing authorization checks.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hg8r-q6jx-8pfj

## What is CVE-2025-62973?

CVE-2025-62973 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Themekraft BuddyForms, published on 27 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Themekraft BuddyForms buddyforms allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects BuddyForms: from n/a through 2.10.2.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-62973?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Themekraft Buddyforms.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-62973?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-62973 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-62973 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62973 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Themekraft BuddyForms

- [CVE-2023-26326](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-26326/): Deserialization in BuddyForms WordPress Plugin (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-21003](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-21003/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-8246](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8246/): Privilege escalation in Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-32830](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32830/): WordPress buddyforms plugin <= 2.8.8- Arbitrary File Read and SSRF vulnerability (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2025-32151](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32151/): WordPress BuddyForms plugin <= 2.10.2 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-62973 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-62973 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Themekraft BuddyForms, published on 27 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62973 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Themekraft BuddyForms. 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-2025-62973/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-62973/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62973
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62973
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62973

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-62973/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.