---
id: CVE-2025-4202
title: >-
  The Multicollab: Content Team Collaboration and Editorial Workflow plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing
  capability check on the 'cf_add_comment' function in all versions up to, and
  incl…
summary: >-
  The Multicollab: Content Team Collaboration and Editorial Workflow plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing
  capability check on the 'cf_add_comment' function in all versions up to, and
  incl…
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: '2026-05-16'
updated: '2026-09-30'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-30T21:10:00.190'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4202'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/commenting-feature/tags/4.8.1/admin/classes/class-commenting-block-admin.php#L1239
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3519252/'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ec2376-dfe3-4aeb-8173-01e88309f540?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00237
epssPercentile: 0.1334
ingestedAt: '2026-09-30T21:25:07.730Z'
---

## Overview

The Multicollab: Content Team Collaboration and Editorial Workflow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'cf_add_comment' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add comments to arbitrary collaborations.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.