CVE-2025-9988 PUBLISHED

Broadstreet <= 1.53.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Advertiser Creation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 04.09.2025 Published: 13.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

The Broadstreet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the create_advertiser AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.53.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create advertisers.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	broadstreetads
Product	Broadstreet
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 1.53.1 (incl.)

Credits

greenhats finder

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/480ab377-b979-4e1c-9c7a-cf63d69ad697?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3524817

Problem Types

CWE-285 Improper Authorization CWE