CVE-2025-12014

Description

The NGINX Cache Optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'nginxcacheoptimizer-blacklist-update' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add URLs to the Exclude URLs From Dynamic Caching setting.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-21 | Published 2025-10-24 | Updated 2025-10-24 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Abhirup Konwar finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-9aa6-403e-aec3-21f33d739066?source=cve

wordpress.org/plugins/nginx-cache-optimizer/

cve.org (CVE-2025-12014)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12014)

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