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Stops Core Theme And Plugin Updates <= 8.0.4 — Insufficient Restrictions on Option Changes

CVE-2019-15650Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤8.0.4Update to 8.0.5 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-285 Improper Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Easy Updates Manager stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates

  1. Affected≤ 8.0.4
  2. Patched in8.0.5

Update to 8.0.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 8.0.4. Version 8.0.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Easy Updates Manager.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 8.0.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Easy Updates Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates plugin before 8.0.5 for WordPress has insufficient restrictions on option changes (such as disabling unattended theme updates) because of a nonce check error.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Easy Updates Manager

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'paged' Parameter
≤9.0.20Update to 9.0.21
CVE-2026-7660

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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