Unauthorized Data Modification Vulnerability in Webcake – Landing Page Builder Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-12165

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Webcake – Landing Page Builder
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-12165?

The Webcake – Landing Page Builder plugin for WordPress contains a critical vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level access and above to manipulate the plugin's configuration settings. This weakness arises from a lack of proper capability checks on the 'webcake_save_config' AJAX endpoint, creating risks for WordPress site administrators. Addressing this vulnerability is vital to ensuring the integrity and security of WordPress sites utilizing the Webcake plugin.

Affected Version(s)

Webcake – Landing Page Builder * <= 1.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/webcake/

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Abhirup Konwar
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CVE-2025-12165 : Unauthorized Data Modification Vulnerability in Webcake – Landing Page Builder Plugin for WordPress