Simple Local Avatars, CVE-2025-8482

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-8482
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Local Avatars
Application: Simple Local Avatars
Published on: Aug 12, 2025
Research Description: The Simple Local Avatars plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data in version 2.8.4. This is due to a missing capability check on the migrate_from_wp_user_avatar() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to migrate avatar metadata for all users.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.8.5.
Status: vulnerable