CVE-2025-8482: Simple Local Avatars <= 2.8.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Avatar Migration

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Simple Local Avatars plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data in version 2.8.4. This is due to a missing capability check on the migrate_from_wp_user_avatar() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to migrate avatar metadata for all users.

Affected products

10up Simple Local Avatars: through 2.8.4

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.4/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.php#L123
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.4/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.php?marks=1663-1672#L1663
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3340223%40simple-local-avatars&new=3340223%40simple-local-avatars&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69d78334-2b38-43ee-acf6-c073d5826213?source=cve

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