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.
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)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| 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
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/27ca93a1-3dfc-4bbd-834a-1c04d9e22ebf?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vayu-blocks/trunk/inc/function.php#L126
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vayu-blocks/trunk/inc/function.php#L133
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vayu-blocks/trunk/inc/function.php#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vayu-blocks/trunk/inc/function.php#L182
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3263702/