Profiler – What Slowing Down Your WP <= 1.0.0 - Missing Authentication to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Reactivation via State Restoration

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-5814
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published June 6, 2025
Last Updated June 7, 2025
Researcher ch4r0n
Description

The Profiler – What Slowing Down Your WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wpsd_plugin_control() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reactivate previously deactivated plugins after accessing the "Profiler" page.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug profiler-what-slowing-down (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.0
Patched Version
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