Vulnerability · Published Apr 8, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2025-2568Vayu Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress & WooCommerce 1.0.4 - 1.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited Arbitrary Options Update

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity missing authorization in Vayu Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress & WooCommerce from themehunk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 33% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

The Vayu Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to missing capability checks on the 'vayu_blocks_get_toggle_switch_values_callback' and 'vayu_blocks_save_toggle_switch_callback' function in versions 1.0.4 to 1.2.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read plugin options and update any option with a key name ending in '_value'.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
themehunk Vayu Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress & WooCommerce 1.0.4 – through 1.2.1

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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