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Missing Authorization

CVE-2025-14357

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

The Mega Store Woocommerce theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the setup_widgets() function in core/includes/importer/whizzie.php in all versions up to, and including, 5.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary pages and modify site settings.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

The missing authorization vulnerability occurs when a software program allows users to access privileged parts of the program without verifying the user credentials. Impact of such a vulnerability depends on the resources employed by the software, ranging from account takeover to sensitive information exposure, denial of service, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published