Listly: Listicles For WordPress <= 2.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Transient Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-5811
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published July 17, 2025
Last Updated July 18, 2025
Researcher ch4r0n
Description

The Listly: Listicles For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the Init() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary transient values on the WordPress site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug listly (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7
Patched Version
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