{"id":"CVE-2025-11172","title":"The Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0","summary":"The Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This …","severity":"medium","cvss":4.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","cwe":["CWE-862"],"published":"2025-10-24","updated":"2026-10-08","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-08T11:10:00.250","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11172","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/check-plagiarism/trunk/index.php#L760","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ade64c1d-65e6-4424-b2da-dc63b49f08aa?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00195,"epssPercentile":0.08442,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-08T11:31:27.569Z","slug":"CVE-2025-11172","body":"## Overview\n\nThe Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the API key.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":24,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":23.7,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}