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Check Plagiarism, CVE-2025-11172

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-11172

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