CVE-2025-26773 Overview
CVE-2025-26773 is a missing authorization vulnerability in the Analytify WordPress plugin, also known as wp-analytify, developed by Adnan Analytify. The flaw affects all versions of Analytify up to and including 5.5.0. The plugin fails to enforce proper access control checks, allowing authenticated users with low privileges to access functionality that should be restricted to higher-privileged roles. The vulnerability maps to CWE-862: Missing Authorization.
Critical Impact
Authenticated attackers with minimal privileges can exploit broken access control to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of WordPress sites running vulnerable Analytify installations.
Affected Products
- Analytify - Google Analytics Dashboard plugin for WordPress
- All versions from n/a through 5.5.0
- WordPress sites running the wp-analytify plugin
Discovery Timeline
- 2025-02-17 - CVE-2025-26773 published to NVD
- 2026-04-23 - Last updated in NVD database
Technical Details for CVE-2025-26773
Vulnerability Analysis
The Analytify plugin exposes plugin functionality without performing adequate authorization checks. The plugin relies on incorrectly configured access control security levels, meaning sensitive endpoints or actions can be reached by users who should not have permission to invoke them. Because the attack vector is network-based and only requires low-privilege authentication, any subscriber-level user on a WordPress site running Analytify can potentially trigger affected actions.
Successful exploitation produces a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. An attacker can read data managed by the plugin, modify plugin state or configuration, and disrupt analytics functionality. Given the WordPress plugin context, abuse of these endpoints can extend into broader site compromise depending on what plugin actions expose.
Root Cause
The root cause is missing authorization checks on plugin actions and endpoints [CWE-862]. The plugin does not validate the calling user's capability or role before executing privileged operations. In WordPress plugin design, this typically results from omitted current_user_can() checks or missing nonce verification combined with capability validation on AJAX handlers and admin-post endpoints.
Attack Vector
An attacker authenticates to the target WordPress site using a low-privilege account such as a subscriber. The attacker then issues HTTP requests directly to vulnerable plugin endpoints exposed by wp-analytify. Because the plugin does not verify authorization, the requests execute with elevated effect, allowing the attacker to perform actions intended for administrators or editors. No user interaction beyond the attacker's own session is required.
No public proof-of-concept exploit code is currently available. Refer to the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for advisory details.
Detection Methods for CVE-2025-26773
Indicators of Compromise
- Unexpected HTTP POST or GET requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php or wp-admin/admin-post.php referencing Analytify actions from low-privilege user sessions.
- Changes to Analytify plugin settings or Google Analytics configuration without a corresponding administrator login event.
- Subscriber or contributor accounts generating administrative-scope plugin traffic in web server access logs.
Detection Strategies
- Audit WordPress access logs for requests targeting Analytify endpoints originating from non-administrative session cookies.
- Monitor the WordPress wp_options table and plugin configuration for unauthorized modifications to Analytify settings.
- Correlate authentication events with plugin administrative actions to identify privilege mismatches.
Monitoring Recommendations
- Enable WordPress audit logging plugins to capture privilege-context for every plugin action.
- Forward web server and WordPress logs to a centralized SIEM and alert on access-control anomalies on plugin endpoints.
- Track Analytify plugin version inventory across managed WordPress instances to identify hosts still running 5.5.0 or earlier.
How to Mitigate CVE-2025-26773
Immediate Actions Required
- Upgrade the Analytify plugin to a version newer than 5.5.0 that contains the access control fix as soon as it is available from the vendor.
- Audit existing WordPress user accounts and remove untrusted or unused low-privilege accounts that could be leveraged for exploitation.
- Review Analytify configuration and recent plugin activity for signs of unauthorized changes.
Patch Information
Consult the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for the latest patched version guidance. Apply the vendor-provided update to all WordPress sites running wp-analytify.
Workarounds
- Disable and remove the Analytify plugin until a patched version is installed if Google Analytics dashboard functionality is not business-critical.
- Restrict access to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php and wp-admin/admin-post.php using a web application firewall rule that blocks Analytify action parameters from non-administrative users.
- Disable user registration or limit it to trusted users to reduce the population of low-privilege accounts that could exploit the flaw.
# Configuration example: WordPress CLI commands to inventory and remove the vulnerable plugin
wp plugin list --name=wp-analytify --field=version
wp plugin update wp-analytify
# If no patched version is available, deactivate the plugin
wp plugin deactivate wp-analytify
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