CVE-2025-47450

Simple File List <= 6.1.13 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Minor Settings Update

2025-05-07 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 6.1.14
Affected Plugin: Simple File List
Affected Version: <= 6.1.13
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE: CVE-2025-47450

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At a glance

CVE-2025-47450 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Simple File List WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.1.13. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 6.1.14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2025, reported by Kévin Mosbahi (Mika).

Vulnerability Overview

The Simple File List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the eeSFL_BASE_Setup() function in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.13. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to set the eeSFL_Lang option to en_US

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 privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Simple File List <= 6.1.13 carries this weakness at eeSFL_BASE_Setup(), 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 Simple File List the fix is 6.1.14: builds <= 6.1.13 are affected, anything from 6.1.14 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.1.14, 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: Simple File List 6.1.14 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-2025-47450 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/207eedfc-8b42-49be-be7a-98da38ad7ee6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47450

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CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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