vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: hm-cool-author-box-widget: CVE-2025-30830: Missing Authorization

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The Cool Author Box – For Widget and Post Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

Solution

hm-cool-author-box-widget-plugin-cve-2025-30830
Title
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