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Be informed about the latest reported WP Security Plugin Vulnerabilities. WP Security CVE MAY 2025 is a +85% INCREASE, compared to last month. Consider for your online safety, a WP/Woo SECURITY AUDIT, – OR – switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP Security Plugin - OR - Hire professionals for managed Security.
TLDR: the details on how to hack a specific software is made public, forcing the vendor to provide a solution (patch or upgrade), that closes that specific vulnerability. CVE is short for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. Read more on wikipedia.org: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, Common Vulnerability Scoring System, Common Weakness Enumeration.
If you are serious about your online business, then you need to pay attention to the WordPress security best practices. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the WP Security CVE MAY 2025 category:
| Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) | Password Protection Bypass (BAC) |
| Admin Menu Post List | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Administrator Z | Privilege Escalation (BAC) |
| Administrator Z | Directory Traversal (BAC) |
| Administrator Z | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| Administrator Z | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| AdminQuickbar | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| ALD Login Page | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Automatic Ban IP | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Botnet Attack Blocker | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| BruteGuard – Brute Force Login Protection | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Buddypress Force Password Change | Account Takeover (BAC) from Password Update (BAC) |
| Cloak Front End Email | Broken Access Control (BAC) |
| CLP – Custom Login Page by NiteoThemes | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| Confirm User Registration | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Custom Admin-Bar Favorites | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Custom Login and Registration | Broken Access Control (BAC) |
| Customize Login Page | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Settings Change (BAC) |
| Debug Log Manager | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Error Log Viewer | SQL Injection (SQLi) |
| Frontend Login and Registration Blocks | Privilege Escalation (BAC) from Password Reset |
| History Log by click5 | SQL Injection (SQLi) |
| KeyCAPTCHA | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Lock Your Updates | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Login Manager | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) from Custom URL |
| Macro Calculator with Admin Email Optin & Data | Multiple Vulnerabilities |
| Macro Calculator with Admin Email Optin & Data | Grouped Vulnerabilities |
| MelaPress Login Security | PHP Object Injection |
| Password Protected | Unauthenticated Private Information Exposure |
| reCAPTCHA Jetpack | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| RegistrationMagic | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Restrict User Registration | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Safe Ai Malware Protection for WP | Broken Access Control (BAC) |
| Secure Copy Content Protection and Content Locking | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Secure Copy Content Protection and Content Locking | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Showeblogin Social | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Sign-up Sheets | Shortcode Injection |
| Sign-up Sheets | Shortcode Injection |
| Simple Map No Api | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| SMM API | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Stop Registration Spam | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Subscribe to Download Lite | Local File Inclusion (LFi) |
| Subscribe to Unlock Lite | Local File Inclusion (LFi) |
| Task Scheduler | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| Unsafe Mimetypes | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| User Registration | Authentication Bypass (BAC) |
| User Registration | Insecure Direct Object Reference to User Password Update (BAC) |
| User Registration | Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated Membership Modification |
| User Registration | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| User Registration & Membership Pro | Authentication Bypass (BAC) |
| User Registration & Membership Pro | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and User Deletion |
| User Registration Using Contact Form 7 | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| User Session Synchronizer | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| WooCommerce Social Login | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
| WordPress REST API Authentication | Settings Change (BAC) |
| WordPress Spam Blocker | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| WP Customize Login Page | Broken Access Control (BAC) |
| WP Customize Login Page | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| WP Delete User Accounts | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| WP-reCAPTCHA-bp | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| WPC Admin Columns | Privilege Escalation (BAC) from User Meta Update |
| WS Force Login Page | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) |
| WordPress Security CVE (plugin vulnerabilities) reported in 2023: | 396 |
| ALL WordPress CVE (core+plugin+theme vulnerabilities) reported in 2023: | 5853 |
| WordPress Security CVE (plugin vulnerabilities) reported in 2024: | 351 |
| ALL WordPress CVE (core+plugin+theme vulnerabilities) reported so far in 2024: | 7614 |
| WordPress Security CVE (plugin vulnerabilities) reported in 2025: | 223 |
| ALL WordPress CVE (core+plugin+theme vulnerabilities) reported so far in 2025: | 5271 |
Security isn’t something that you can just do once. It's something that's constantly evolving and you need to regularly update your site’s security standards and conduct routine website safety checks if you want to stay protected. There isn’t a way to 100% protect your website from hackers and other malicious attempts. But, if you want to give your site the highest level of protection possible, then it’s a good idea to update immediately these WP Security CVE plugins.
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