The The Bucketlister plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the bucketlister_do_admin_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add delete or modify arbitrary bucket list items.
The Bucketlister <= 0.1.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Bucket List Modification
Problem type
Affected products
simonfairbairn
<= 0.1.5 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fc9e6374-8f9e-4c60-a86b-46cd4122abf9?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-bucketlister/tags/0.1.5/bucketlister.php#L185
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-vc9m-xjw2-9f76
The The Bucketlister plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vc9m-xjw2-9f76The The Bucketlister plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the bucketlister_do_admin_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add delete or modify arbitrary bucket list items.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15476
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-bucketlister/tags/0.1.5/bucketlister.php#L185
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fc9e6374-8f9e-4c60-a86b-46cd4122abf9?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vc9m-xjw2-9f76
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-15476Click to expand
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