PT-2026-40559 · WordPress · Broadstreet

Greenhats · Published 2026-05-13 · Updated 2026-05-13 · CVE-2025-9988

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Broadstreet versions prior to 1.53.2

Description The Broadstreet plugin for WordPress allows unauthorized access because it fails to perform a capability check on the 'create advertiser' AJAX action. This allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level permissions or higher to create advertisers.

Recommendations Update to a version later than 1.53.1. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the 'create advertiser' AJAX action to prevent unauthorized advertiser creation.

Fix

Improper Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-285

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-9988

Affected Products

Broadstreet

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9988 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/480ab377-b979-4e1c-9c7a-cf63d69ad697?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/53602 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3524817 · Note