CVE-2025-49901

WordPress Simple Link Directory plugin < 14.8.1 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Oct 22, 2025
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Jun 11, 2025

Description

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in quantumcloud Simple Link Directory qc-simple-link-directory allows Authentication Abuse.This issue affects Simple Link Directory: from n/a through < 14.8.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Patchstack

Weaknesses

CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Simple Link Directoryquantumcloud	14.8.1 and earlierAffectedfrom 14.8.1Not affected

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/qc-simple-link-directory/vulnerability/wordpress-simple-link-directory-plugin-14-8-1-broken-authentication-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry

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