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WordPress Plugin: clickwhale: CVE-2025-47612: Missing Authorization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 7, 2025
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links and Link Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

Solution

clickwhale-plugin-cve-2025-47612
Title
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