High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8418

Description

The B Slider- Gutenberg Slider Block for WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Plugin Installation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.30. This is due to missing capability checks on the activated_plugin function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins on the server which can make remote code execution possible.

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Affected products

WordPress/B Sliderinferred
Range: <=1.1.30
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/b-slider
B Slider/B Slider - Gutenberg Slider Block for WPllm-create
Range: <=1.1.30

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/b-slider/tags/1.1.28/adminMenu.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3342079/b-slider/trunk/adminMenu.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/deffd646-5117-4086-bf4b-8a17ffdaad8bnvd

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