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CVE-2025-5811: Listly: Listicles For WordPress <= 2.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Transient Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2025-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Listly: Listicles For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the Init() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary transient values on the WordPress site.

Affected products

• milanmk Listly: Listicles For WordPress: through 2.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listly/trunk/listly.php#L151
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/listly/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee6749f5-1dd0-4687-9a86-64fd1161321b?source=cve

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