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CVE-2025-10646: Search Exclude <= 2.5.7 – Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Search Settings Modification via REST API

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-25 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Search Exclude plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a insufficient capability check on the Base::get_rest_permission() method in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to modify plugin settings, such as adding arbitrary posts to the search exclusion list.

Affected products

• quadlayers Search Exclude: through 2.5.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3379004/search-exclude
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b0f62d05-84fb-4cd6-9e5f-0dcfa305ce68?source=cve

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