Demo Importer Plus <= 2.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Site Reset and Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0.9
- Affected Plugin
- Demo Importer Plus
- Affected Version
<= 2.0.8- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-14364
At a glance
CVE-2025-14364 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Demo Importer Plus WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.8. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by shark3y.
Vulnerability Overview
The Demo Importer Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data, loss of data, and privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the Ajax::handle_request() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger a full site reset, dropping all database tables except users/usermeta and re-running wp_install(), which also assigns the Administrator role to the attacking subscriber account.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Demo Importer Plus <= 2.0.8 carries this weakness at handle_request(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. 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 Demo Importer Plus the fix is 2.0.9: builds <= 2.0.8 are affected, anything from 2.0.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Demo Importer Plus 2.0.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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