# CVE-2025-8593: Missing authorization in GSheetConnector for Gravity Forms – Send Gravity Forms Entries to Google Sheets in Real-Time

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

- **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:** 11 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-53vg-3672-37jx

## What is CVE-2025-8593?

CVE-2025-8593 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in westerndeal GSheetConnector for Gravity Forms – Send Gravity Forms Entries to Google Sheets in Real-Time, published on 11 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The GSheetConnector For Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions less than, or equal to, 1.3.27. This is due to a missing capability check on the 'install_plugin' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above to install plugins on the target site and potentially achieve arbitrary code execution on the server under certain conditions.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8593?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-8593?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8593 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-8593 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8593 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-8593 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-8593 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in westerndeal GSheetConnector for Gravity Forms – Send Gravity Forms Entries to Google Sheets in Real-Time, published on 11 Oct 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-2025-8593 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: westerndeal GSheetConnector for Gravity Forms – Send Gravity Forms Entries to Google Sheets in Real-Time. 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-2025-8593/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8593/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8593
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8593
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-8593

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8593/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.