CVE-2025-1304
NewsBlogger <= 0.2.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload
HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.1%
The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
- Affected
- spicethemes · NewsBlogger
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 66th percentile
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- Updated
- 2026-04-08
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- Nxploited/CVE-2025-13042★ · 2025-05-02
Security advisories
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/85cea6b5-d57b-495e-a504-a0c1ba6…
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2.5.5/functions.php?annotate=blam…
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L440
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L461
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsblogger/0.2/functions.php#L470