Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-28872

Medium

Published: 11 March 2025

Published
11 March 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.1th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-28872 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Block Spam By Math Reloaded WordPress plugin by jwpegram. The flaw allows accessing functionality not properly constrained by access control lists (ACLs) and affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 2.2.4.

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction. Exploitation leads to a low-impact denial of service, consistent with the CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

The Patchstack advisory provides details on this broken access control vulnerability in Block Spam By Math Reloaded version 2.2.4; security practitioners should consult https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/block-spam-by-math-reloaded/vulnerability/wordpress-block-spam-by-math-reloaded-plugin-2-2-4-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve for mitigation guidance.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-862

Affected Products

jwpegram
block spam by math reloaded
≤ 2.2.4

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
Why these techniques?

Missing authorization in public-facing WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated remote exploitation (T1190) leading directly to denial of service impact (T1499).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References