Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8482

Description

The Simple Local Avatars plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data in version 2.8.4. This is due to a missing capability check on the migrate_from_wp_user_avatar() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to migrate avatar metadata for all users.

Affected products

WordPress/Simple Local Avatarsinferred
Range: =2.8.4
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-local-avatars

Patches

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Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.4/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.4/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69d78334-2b38-43ee-acf6-c073d5826213nvd

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