Newsup <= 5.0.10 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Installation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-8682
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 10, 2025
Last Updated October 11, 2025
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The Newsup theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the newsup_admin_info_install_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install the ansar-import plugin.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug newsup (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.10
Patched Version
  • 5.0.11
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