WordPress security changelog
LOW CVE-2025-54352 Deferred

WordPress component: A security weakness

WordPress component is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 3.7 CVSS 3.1 · cve@mitre.org
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
WordPress component
Plugin slug
Core
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Jul 21, 2025
Weakness
CWE-669 — Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres

This CVE was published Jul 21, 2025 and is one of 45 known issues for WordPress core.

What to do

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update WordPress component to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Source record

Technical description

WordPress 3.5 through 6.8.2 allows remote attackers to guess titles of private and draft posts via pingback.ping XML-RPC requests. NOTE: the Supplier is not changing this behavior.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources