CVE-2025-9218

rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.7.0 - 4.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Disclosure via handle_rest_pre_dispatch Function

2025-12-12 15:34
kr0d

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.7.4
Affected Plugin
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
Affected Version
4.7.0 – 4.7.3
CVSS
3.7Low
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2025-9218
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At a glance

CVE-2025-9218 is a low-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions 4.7.0 – 4.7.3. It carries a CVSS score of 3.7 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.7.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by kr0d.

Vulnerability Overview

The rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to to Information Disclosure due to missing authorization in the handle_rest_pre_dispatch() function when the Godam plugin is active, in versions 4.7.0 to 4.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve media items associated with draft or private posts.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.7.0 – 4.7.3 carries this weakness at handle_rest_pre_dispatch(), and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress the fix is 4.7.4: builds 4.7.0 – 4.7.3 are affected, anything from 4.7.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.7.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.7.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9218https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/68533b4c-1bdf-4104-a263-757b018af129https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9218

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