What is CVE-2025-5811?

CVE-2025-5811 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Milanmk Listly: Listicles For WordPress, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-07-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-5811?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Milanmk Listly: Listicles For WordPress

CVE-2025-5811

The Listly: Listicles For WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the Init() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary transient values on the WordPress site.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.003 (19.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Milanmk Listly: Listicles For Wordpress — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5811?: CVE-2025-5811 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Milanmk Listly: Listicles For WordPress, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-07-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-5811?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.