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Post SMTP <= 2.9.11 — Missing Authorization via regenerate_qrcode()

CVE-2025-22800Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.9.11Update to 2.9.12 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
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-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Post SMTP – Complete Email Delivery and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Alerts, Backup SMTP & Mobile App post-smtp

  1. Affected≤ 2.9.11
  2. Patched in2.9.12

Update to 2.9.12 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.9.11. Version 2.9.12 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Post SMTP – Complete Email Delivery and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Alerts, Backup SMTP & Mobile App.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.9.12, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Post SMTP – Complete Email Delivery and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Alerts, Backup SMTP & Mobile App to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rafie Muhammad.

The Post SMTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the regenerate_qrcode() function in versions up to, and including, 2.9.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to generate QR codes.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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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