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CVE-2025-8446: Blaze Demo Importer <= 1.0.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Plugin Install

• 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: 2025-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Blaze Demo Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized limited plugin install due to a missing capability check on the 'blaze_demo_importer_install_plugin' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate a limited number of specific plugins. The News Kit Elementor Addons plugin and a BlazeThemes theme must be installed and activated in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Affected products

• blazethemes Blaze Demo Importer: through 1.0.12

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blaze-demo-importer/trunk/blaze-demo-importer.php#L91
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3361179/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a91bd1cf-ac63-4d65-b9fc-3fa2507cc27e?source=cve

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