CVE-2025-3455
Published: 09 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3455 is a high-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 20.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The 1 Click WordPress Migration Plugin for WordPress, in all versions through 2.2, contains a missing capability check on the start_restore function. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3455 and assigned CWE-434, permits unauthorized modification of data and enables arbitrary file uploads on the server, carrying a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8.
Authenticated attackers holding Subscriber or higher privileges can invoke the affected function over the network to upload malicious files, which may lead to remote code execution on the target site.
Public references from the WordPress plugin repository document the vulnerable code path and a subsequent changeset that addresses the missing authorization check, while the Wordfence advisory provides additional technical details for defenders.
EPSS scores remain low, with a current value of 0.0124 and a peak of 0.0144, indicating limited observed exploitation interest to date.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14128
Vulnerability details
The 1 Click WordPress Migration Plugin – 100% FREE for a limited time plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'start_restore' function in all versions up to, and including,…
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2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Requiring identifiable owners for portable devices reduces the attack surface for unrestricted uploads of dangerous file types via anonymous media.
Dangerous file uploads can be detonated in the chamber to determine malice before any production write or execution occurs.
Prevents unrestricted writing of arbitrary or malicious firmware by keeping hardware write-protect enabled except under tightly controlled manual procedures.
Scans files from external sources on download/open/execute, blocking unrestricted uploads of dangerous file types.