{"id":"CVE-2025-5190","aliases":["EUVD-2025-16477","GHSA-xp67-rfwj-p4w6"],"status":"published","title":"Browse As \u003c= 0.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authentication Bypass via Cookie","description":"The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00511,"percentile":0.44078,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-288"],"published":"2025-05-30T11:15:10Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:47:25Z","products":[{"vendor":"sorich87","product":"browse as"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5722b0-0d54-4c44-b168-a886da1077cb?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L115"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L92"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5190"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xp67-rfwj-p4w6"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-5190","title":"Browse As \u003c= 0.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authentication Bypass via Cookie","description":"The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T11:15:10.217Z","modified":"2026-04-08T17:06:32.803Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-288"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:29.97618Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-16477","description":"The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T11:15:10Z","modified":"2026-04-08T17:06:32Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:24:49.853218Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-xp67-rfwj-p4w6","title":"The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and...","description":"The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T12:31:26Z","modified":"2025-05-30T12:31:33Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-288"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:02:30.830782Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-5190","description":"The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T12:15:21.103Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:47:25.183Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-288"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:11:10.143444Z"}]}}