Subscriber-level unauthorized privileged action
Published Oct 22, 2025 · Updated Oct 22, 2025
Missing authorization in Smash Balloon Social Post Feed 4.3.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to perform a privileged action. Neither Patchstack nor the plugin changelog identifies the affected function, request parameter, or omitted authorization check; the code-level mechanism is undisclosed. Subscriber access is required, and the available records do not identify which site data or setting the action modifies.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in Smash Balloon Social Post Feed 4.3.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to perform a privileged action. Neither Patchstack nor the plugin changelog identifies the affected function, request parameter, or omitted authorization check; the code-level mechanism is undisclosed. Subscriber access is required, and the available records do not identify which site data or setting the action modifies.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-49937
- Published
- Oct 22, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2025
- Vendor
- Smash Balloon
- Product
- Smash Balloon Social Post Feed
- Classifications
- CWE-862, CAPEC-180
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 22, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 22, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=n/a <=<= 4.3.2 changes=[{"at":"4.3.3","status":"unaffected"}]
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