CM Pop-Up banners <= 1.8.4 - Missing Authorization

4.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-54018
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published July 16, 2025
Last Updated July 21, 2025
Researcher Bao - BlueRock

Description

The CM Pop-Up – Create engaging popups to capture attention and boost interaction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

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Vulnerability Details for CM Pop-Up – Create engaging popups to capture attention and boost interaction

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug cm-pop-up-banners (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.8.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.4
Patched Version
  • 1.8.5

Recent vulnerabilities in CM Pop-Up – Create engaging popups to capture attention and boost interaction

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Multiple Plugins <= (Various Versions) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via cminds_free_guide Shortcode CVE-2024-11202 6.1 Peter Thaleikis November 25, 2024
2 CM Pop-Up Banners <= 1.7.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-5799 6.4 Eunho Kim August 22, 2024
3 CM Popup Plugin for WordPress – Popup Maker <= 1.6.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-5004 6.4 Felipe Caon July 1, 2024
4 CM Pop-Up banners <= 1.5.10 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via getStatistics CVE-2023-30750 8.8 Dave Jong May 3, 2023
5 CM Pop-Up banners <= 1.4.10 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting 6.4 Jeroen Mulder March 27, 2020

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