Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 24, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-11172

Description

The Check Plagiarism plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the chk_plag_mine_plugin_wpse10500_admin_action() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the API key.

Affected products

WordPress/Check Plagiarisminferred
Range: <=2.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-plagiarism

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/check-plagiarism/trunk/index.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ade64c1d-65e6-4424-b2da-dc63b49f08aanvd

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