CVE-2025-12170

Checkbox <= 2.8.10 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Log Clearing

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Nov 21, 2025
Updated: Apr 8, 2026
Reserved: Oct 24, 2025

Description

The Checkbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_checkbox_clean_log' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to clear log files.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	Wordfence

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Checkboxbandido	2.8.10 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/16735e63-d652-4b0e-b454-2bd13368d8a7?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3392710%40checkbox&new=3392710%40checkbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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