CVE-2025-5190HIGH 8.8EPSS p36.6%

CVE-2025-5190CVE-2025-5190

Description

The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.

Scoring

CVSS 3.18.8 (HIGH)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.45% probability of exploitation · percentile 36.6% · 2026-08-03T12:00:16Z
Published2025-05-30
Last modified2026-04-15

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-288

References

  1. https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L115
  2. https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L92
  3. https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5722b0-0d54-4c44-b168-a886da1077cb?source=cve

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessAuthentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channelcwe-2880%live

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