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CVE-2025-10740: URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress <= 3.0.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Link Manipulation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-24 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access to functionality provided by the API due to a missing capability check on the verifyRequest function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify links.

Affected products

• rupok98 URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress: through 3.0.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/exact-links/trunk/app/Http/Routes/api.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/exact-links/trunk/app/Models/LinkAnalytics.php?rev=3210852
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29cc5016-005e-48e8-b929-5064798f24da?source=cve

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