Demo Importer Plus <= 2.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Site Reset and Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-14364
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 17, 2025
Last Updated December 18, 2025
Researcher shark3y
Description

The Demo Importer Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data, loss of data, and privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the Ajax::handle_request() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger a full site reset, dropping all database tables except users/usermeta and re-running wp_install(), which also assigns the Administrator role to the attacking subscriber account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug demo-importer-plus (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.8
Patched Version
  • 2.0.9
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