# CVE-2025-8446: Blaze Demo Importer <= 1.0.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Plugin Install

> Authenticated subscribers can install specific plugins due to missing capability checks, potentially leading to privilege escalation or code execution.

- **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:** 16 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-32px-xrqr-6c5g

## What is CVE-2025-8446?

CVE-2025-8446 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in blazethemes Blaze Demo Importer, published on 16 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Blaze Demo Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized limited plugin install due to a missing capability check on the 'blaze_demo_importer_install_plugin' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate a limited number of specific plugins. The News Kit Elementor Addons plugin and a BlazeThemes theme must be installed and activated in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8446?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-8446?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8446 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-8446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-8446 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-8446 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in blazethemes Blaze Demo Importer, published on 16 Sep 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-2025-8446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: blazethemes Blaze Demo Importer. 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-2025-8446/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8446/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8446
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8446
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-8446

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8446/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.