CVE-2025-8482 PUBLISHED

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.

• Håkon Harnes finder

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69d78334-2b38-43ee-acf6-c073d5826213?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.4/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.php?marks=1663-1672#L1663
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-local-avatars/tags/2.8.4/includes/class-simple-local-avatars.php#L123
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3340223%40simple-local-avatars&new=3340223%40simple-local-avatars&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

• CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE