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CVE-2025-12372: The Permalinks Cascade <= 2.2 - Missing Authorization To Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Update

• 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: 2025-11-18 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Permalinks Cascade plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the handleTPCAdminAjaxRequest function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform unauthorized administrative actions such as enabling or disabling automatic pinging settings and modifying page exclusion settings.

Affected products

• _luigi The Permalinks Cascade: through 2.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-permalinks-cascade/tags/2.2/admin/admin-controller.class.php#L109
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-permalinks-cascade/tags/2.2/includes/core.class.php#L36
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c08d420d-d521-4215-9ef7-b5d1c44a19d3?source=cve

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