CVE-2025-49979

WordPress Media Hygiene plugin <= 4.0.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

4.3 Medium

Missing Authorization vulnerability in slui Media Hygiene media-hygiene allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Media Hygiene: from n/a through <= 4.0.1.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Exploit likelihood

0.28%Up 0.3 points since Jun 21, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 4.3

WordPress Media Hygiene plugin <= 4.0.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Record: CVE-2025-49979
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-18948 4.3

Record: EUVD-2025-18948
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-g2pq-7p3f-25jp 4.3

Missing Authorization vulnerability in slui Media Hygiene allows Exploiting Incorrectly...

Missing Authorization vulnerability in slui Media Hygiene allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects Media Hygiene: from n/a through 4.0.1.

Record: GHSA-g2pq-7p3f-25jp
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 4.3

Record: CVE-2025-49979
CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

slui media hygiene

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-49979 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Slui Media Hygiene, published June 20, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.28%, the 20th percentile. No source names a fixed version.