Medium 4.3Published Oct 24, 2025

CVE-2025-11172Check Plagiarism <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 5:00 PM ET)

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The Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the API key.

CVSS: 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Wordfence
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Apr 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

plagiarismchecker Check Plagiarism plagiarismchecker:check_plagiarism (from the name)	through 2.0	CNA record

References

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ade64c1d-65e6-4424-b2da-dc63b49f08aa?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/check-plagiarism/trunk/index.php#L760

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