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1 vulnerability found for Database Cleaner: Cleanup, Optimization & Repair by tigroumeow

CVE-2025-8574 (GCVE-0-2025-8574)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-30 17:15
Modified
2026-10-30 18:08
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
The Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary table deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.7. This is due to a lack of restriction on database tables that can be deleted. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to delete core WordPress tables.
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