CVE-2025-8682

Newsup <= 5.0.10 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Installation

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Oct 11, 2025
Updated: Apr 8, 2026
Reserved: Aug 6, 2025

Description

The Newsup theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the newsup_admin_info_install_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the ansar-import plugin.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	Wordfence

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Newsupthemeansar	5.0.10 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/939b408c-ae22-40ce-b500-317150a2da3b?source=cve
https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-8682
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=292407%40newsup&new=292407%40newsup&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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