Subscriber-level access to higher-privileged actions
Published Apr 3, 2025 · Updated Apr 28, 2026
Missing authorization in FPW Category Thumbnails 1.9.5 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to perform unspecified higher-privileged actions. Patchstack has not published the affected function, request, or authorization check, and no patch or code diff identifies the wrong operation. Subscriber-level WordPress access is required, but the specific higher-privileged action available to that role remains undisclosed.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in FPW Category Thumbnails 1.9.5 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to perform unspecified higher-privileged actions. Patchstack has not published the affected function, request, or authorization check, and no patch or code diff identifies the wrong operation. Subscriber-level WordPress access is required, but the specific higher-privileged action available to that role remains undisclosed.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-31841
- Published
- Apr 3, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- Vendor
- Frank P. Walentynowicz
- Product
- FPW Category Thumbnails
- Classifications
- CWE-862
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 3, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.9.5
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