{"id":26553,"date":"2025-04-18T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-10T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:20:11","slug":"cve-2025-32542-unchecked-authorization-vulnerability-in-eazyplugins-eazy-plugin-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32542-unchecked-authorization-vulnerability-in-eazyplugins-eazy-plugin-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-32542: Unchecked Authorization Vulnerability in EazyPlugins Eazy Plugin Manager<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE-2025-32542 is a critical cybersecurity vulnerability affecting EazyPlugins Eazy Plugin Manager. This vulnerability, classified as a Missing Authorization vulnerability, allows threat actors to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, potentially resulting in system compromise or data leakage. As EazyPlugins Eazy Plugin Manager is widely used across various industries, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-43514-memory-corruption-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31575\">vulnerability&#8217;s potential<\/a> impact is significant and concerns a broad range of users, from small business owners to large corporations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-32542<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.8 CVSS Severity Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-58136-critical-vulnerability-in-yii-2-framework-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31705\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3508497191\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>EazyPlugins Eazy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53260-unrestricted-file-upload-vulnerability-in-getredhawkstudio-file-manager-plugin-for-wordpress\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"65363\">Plugin Manager<\/a> | Up to and including 4.3.0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploit works by taking advantage of the lack of proper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-30206-hardcoded-jwt-secret-exploitation-in-dpanel-docker-management-system\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35476\">authorization measures in the Eazy Plugin<\/a> Manager. Due to incorrectly configured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-20936-escalation-of-privileges-through-improper-access-control-in-hdcp-trustlet\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"30669\">access controls<\/a>, an attacker can send a specially crafted request to the Plugin Manager. The system fails to properly authenticate the request, allowing the attacker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-55354-protection-mechanism-failure-in-lucee-leading-to-unauthorized-code-execution-and-data-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31233\">execute unauthorized<\/a> actions. This could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-33033-audio-playback-memory-corruption-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31232\">potentially lead to the compromise of the entire system<\/a> or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2578296276\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is a conceptual example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-50123-exploitable-vulnerability-in-hozard-alarm-system-sms-authentication\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35477\">vulnerability might be exploited<\/a>. In this case, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-6162-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-ex1200t-http-post-request-handler\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"65364\">HTTP request<\/a> is sent with a malicious payload, exploiting the lack of proper authorization checks.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/plugin_manager\/execute_action HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{\n&quot;action&quot;: &quot;malicious_action&quot;,\n&quot;payload&quot;: &quot;malicious_payload&quot;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, &#8216;malicious_action&#8217; and &#8216;malicious_payload&#8217; represent the malicious action an attacker wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-41788-critical-code-execution-vulnerability-in-sentron-7kt-pac1260-data-manager\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"30689\">execute and the code or data<\/a> that facilitates this action. Because of the missing authorization checks, the system does not validate whether the sender of this request has the necessary permissions to execute the specified action, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-33113-memory-corruption-vulnerability-leading-to-system-compromise-or-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31346\">leading to potential system compromise or data<\/a> leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/preparing-for-quantum-computing-the-impact-on-cybersecurity-and-mitigation-strategies\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"31423\">mitigate the impact<\/a> of this vulnerability, users of EazyPlugins Eazy Plugin Manager are advised to apply the vendor patch as soon as it becomes available. Until then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5485-a-critical-vulnerability-pertaining-to-user-name-enumeration-in-web-management-interfaces\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"65365\">users can use a Web<\/a> Application Firewall (WAF) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to monitor and filter out potentially malicious traffic as a temporary mitigation measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview CVE-2025-32542 is a critical cybersecurity vulnerability affecting EazyPlugins Eazy Plugin Manager. This vulnerability, classified as a Missing Authorization vulnerability, allows threat actors to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, potentially resulting in system compromise or data leakage. As EazyPlugins Eazy Plugin Manager is widely used across various industries, this vulnerability&#8217;s potential impact is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-26553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26553"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58818,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26553\/revisions\/58818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=26553"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=26553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}