DefendWP Firewall <= 1.1.0 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-22280
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 24, 2025
Last Updated March 3, 2025
Researcher Tom Broucke
Description

The DefendWP Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the defend_wp_firewall_verify_ajax_requests() function in versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute all of the plugin's AJAX requests.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug defend-wp-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.1.1
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