CVE-2025-4202

The Multicollab: Content Team Collaboration and Editorial Workflow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'cf_add_comment' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add comments to arbitrary collaborations.

CVSS v3 4.3 MEDIUM

4.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/commenting-feature/tags/4.8.1/admin/classes/class-commenting-block-admin.php#L1239
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3519252/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ec2376-dfe3-4aeb-8173-01e88309f540?source=cve

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-16 13:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 09:32

NVD link : CVE-2025-4202

Mitre link : CVE-2025-4202

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-4202

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

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