What is CVE-2025-5018?

CVE-2025-5018 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hivesupport Hive Support | Ai-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat And Chatbot, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2025-5018?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Hivesupport Hive Support | Ai-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat And Chatbot

CVE-2025-5018

The Hive Support plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the hs_update_ai_chat_settings() and hive_lite_support_get_all_binbox() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read and overwrite the site’s OpenAI API key and inspection data or modify AI-chat prompts and behavior. This vulnerability is potentially a duplicate of CVE-2025-32208 or/and CVE-2025-32242.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.003 (19.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Hivesupport Hive Support | Ai-powered Help Desk, Live Chat And Chatbot — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5018?: CVE-2025-5018 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hivesupport Hive Support | Ai-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat And Chatbot, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2025-5018?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.