# CVE-2025-9018: Missing authorization in Time Tracker

> Authenticated subscribers can update plugin options to grant themselves administrator privileges and delete limited database records due to missing capability checks.

- **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 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j5f2-3cr2-pf2v

## What is CVE-2025-9018?

CVE-2025-9018 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in germanpearls Time Tracker, published on 11 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Time Tracker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'tt_update_table_function' and 'tt_delete_record_function' functions in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update options such as user registration and default role, allowing anyone to register as an Administrator, and to delete limited data from the database.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9018?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-9018?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9018 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-9018 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9018 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-9018 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in germanpearls Time Tracker, published on 11 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-2025-9018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: germanpearls Time Tracker. 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-2025-9018/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9018/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9018
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9018
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9018

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9018/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.