Vulnerability · Published Jun 13, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-5815Traffic Monitor <= 3.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Update
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in Traffic Monitor from dmitriamartin. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tfcm_maybe_set_bot_flags() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to disabled bot logging.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| dmitriamartin | Traffic Monitor | 0 – through 3.2.2 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/538669c7-3237-4059-85dc-4f4af1ff5a19?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/traffic-monitor/trunk/traffic-monitor.php#L74
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3309996%40traffic-monitor&new=3309996%40traffic-monitor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=