Pearl <= 1.3.9 - Missing Authorization

4.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-31881
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 1, 2025
Last Updated August 22, 2025
Researcher Kévin Mosbahi (Mika)

Description

The WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.9. 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 Pearl – Header Builder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pearl-header-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.3.10, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.9
Patched Version
  • 1.3.10

Recent vulnerabilities in Pearl – Header Builder

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Pearl <= 1.3.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2025-31880 4.3 Kévin Mosbahi (Mika) April 1, 2025
2 Wordpress Header Builder Plugin <= 1.3.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Header Deletion CVE-2024-12206 4.3 Noah Stead (TurtleBurg) January 8, 2025
3 WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl <= 1.3.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Site Options Deletion CVE-2024-5468 6.5 Lucio Sá June 11, 2024
4 WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl <= 1.3.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2024-4000 6.4 Krzysztof Zając April 30, 2024
5 Pearl <= 1.3.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via stm_save_hb_settings CVE-2022-38356 4.3 István Márton April 19, 2023

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