CVE-2025-11627

Site Checkup AI Troubleshooting with Wizard and Tips for Each Issue <= 1.47 - Unauthenticated Log File Poisoning

2025-10-29 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.48
Affected Plugin: Site Checkup Debug AI Troubleshooting with Wizard and Tips for Each Issue
Affected Version: <= 1.47
CVSS: 6.5Medium
Weakness type: CWE-117 · Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
CVE: CVE-2025-11627

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At a glance

CVE-2025-11627 is a medium-severity Improper Output Neutralization for Logs vulnerability in the Site Checkup Debug AI Troubleshooting with Wizard and Tips for Each Issue WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.47. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.48; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by Jonas Benjamin Friedli.

Vulnerability Overview

The Site Checkup Debug AI Troubleshooting with Wizard and Tips for Each Issue plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to log file poisoning in all versions up to, and including, 1.47. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to insert arbitrary content into log files, and potentially cause denial of service via disk space exhaustion.

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-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs

The product constructs a log message from external input, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements when the message is written to a log file.

Remediation

Update to version 1.48, 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: Site Checkup Debug AI Troubleshooting with Wizard and Tips for Each Issue 1.48 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-2025-11627 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50251b17-58d7-4870-b825-a194312fb3e7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11627

CVSS Vector

6.5

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

Base

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

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