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CVE-2025-2779: Insert Headers and Footers Code – HT Script <= 1.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2025-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Insert Headers and Footers Code – HT Script plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_dismiss function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update option values to 1/true on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update an option that would create an error on the site and deny access to legitimate users or be used to set some values to true, such as registration.

Affected products

• htplugins Insert Headers and Footers Code – HT Script: through 1.1.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/insert-headers-and-footers-script/tags/1.1.2/admin/class-rating-notice.php#L59
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/75bc2295-bf9a-430f-92b7-d380eed6df11?source=cve

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