Check Plagiarism, CVE-2025-11172

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-11172
Home page URL: Security reports for Check Plagiarism
Application: Check Plagiarism
Published on: Oct 24, 2025
Research Description: The Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the API key.
Affected versions: max 2.0.
Status: vulnerable