WP-FeedStats age-restriction Plugin up to 3.0.2 on WordPress age_restrictionRemoteSupportRequest privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in WP-FeedStats age-restriction Plugin up to 3.0.2 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function age_restrictionRemoteSupportRequest. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-11855. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in WP-FeedStats age-restriction Plugin up to 3.0.2 on WordPress. This issue affects the function age_restrictionRemoteSupportRequest. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The age-restriction WordPress plugin through 3.0.2 does not have authorisation in the age_restrictionRemoteSupportRequest function, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to create an admin user with a hardcoded username and arbitrary password.

The weakness was published by Khaled Alenazi. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-11855 since 10/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/11/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WP-FeedStats

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• age-restriction Plugin

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• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2

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