Crypto Tool <= 2.22 - Missing Authentication to Unauthenticated Limited File Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-11988
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 10, 2025
Last Updated November 11, 2025
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
Description

The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized manipulation of data in all versions up to, and including, 2.22. This is due to the plugin registering an unauthenticated AJAX action (wp_ajax_nopriv_crypto_connect_ajax_process) that allows calling the crypto_delete_json method with only a publicly-available nonce check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete specific JSON files matching the pattern *_pending.json within the wp-content/uploads/yak/ directory, causing data loss and denial of service for plugin workflows that rely on these artifacts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug crypto (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.22
Patched Version
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