CVE-2025-2816

Description

The Page View Count plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to a denial of service due to a missing capability check on the yellow_message_dontshow() function in versions 2.8.0 to 2.8.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update option values to one on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update an option that would create an error on the site and deny service to legitimate users or be used to set some values to true such as registration.

Reserved 2025-03-26 | Published 2025-05-01 | Updated 2025-05-01 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2.8.0
affected

Timeline

2025-04-30:

Disclosed

Credits

Kenneth Dunn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-06e5-4297-93df-ee9a6971f0ec?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ws-count&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-2816)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2816)

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