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CVE-2025-12579: Reuters Direct <= 3.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Reset

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2025-11-27 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Reuters Direct plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'logoff' action in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin's settings.

Affected products

• rnags Reuters Direct: through 3.0.0

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/reuters-direct/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4360f293-201c-40c1-9603-931d72cc79bc?source=cve

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