WordPress theme
Photography <= 7.5.2 — Missing Authorization
CVE-2025-22702Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.5.2No patch available
What to do until a fix shipsMedium5.4CVSS 3.15.4CISA KEVNot listedAccessLow-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2025-22702
- Product
- photography photography
- Affected
- ≤7.5.2
- Fixed in
- no fix yet
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Low-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Rafie Muhammad
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 7.5.2
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
The Photography theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 7.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.
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Remediation & mitigations
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 5.3CVE-2026-65487Missing Authorization
- 7.2CVE-2026-27043Authenticated (Editor+) Arbitrary File Upload
- 7.2CVE-2026-27348Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 8.1CVE-2025-68510Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
- 6.1CVE-2025-64217Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
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.