CVE-2025-30830

WordPress Cool Author Box plugin <= 2.9.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Mar 27, 2025
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Mar 26, 2025

Description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Hossni Mubarak Cool Author Box hm-cool-author-box-widget allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Cool Author Box: from n/a through <= 2.9.9.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cool Author BoxHossni Mubarak	2.9.9 and earlierAffectedfrom 3.0.0Not affected

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/hm-cool-author-box-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-cool-author-box-plugin-2-9-9-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry

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