CVE-2025-12579

Reuters Direct <= 3.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Reset

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Nov 27, 2025
Updated: Apr 8, 2026
Reserved: Oct 31, 2025

Description

The Reuters Direct plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'logoff' action in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin's settings.

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
Reuters Directrnags	3.0.0 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4360f293-201c-40c1-9603-931d72cc79bc?source=cve
https://wordpress.org/plugins/reuters-direct/

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