CVE-2025-8147

Impact

The LWSCache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to improper authorization on the lwscache_activatePlugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate arbitrary whitelisted LWS plugins.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lwscache/tags/2.8.5/lwscache.php#L401
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3352047/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/lwscache/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01a6a5bf-636b-416c-86fa-43f639624e80?source=cve