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WordPress Plugin: protected-posts-logout-button: CVE-2023-25454: Missing Authorization

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 16, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Protected Posts Logout Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized deletion of data due to a missing capability check on the pplb_options_save function in versions up to, and including, 1.4.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings. A nonce check was added in version 1.4.5, which does not address this issue properly. 1.4.6 adds a capability check.

Solution

protected-posts-logout-button-plugin-cve-2023-25454
Title
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