WP Wallcreeper <= 1.6.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Susbcriber+) Cache Enable/Disable

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-7822
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 23, 2025
Last Updated July 24, 2025
Researcher ch4r0n
Description

The WP Wallcreeper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the admin_notices hook in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enable and disable caching.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-wallcreeper (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.1
Patched Version
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