CVE-2025-48260: GDPR CCPA Compliance Auth Bypass Flaw

CVE-2025-48260 Overview

CVE-2025-48260 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Ninja Team GDPR CCPA Compliance Support WordPress plugin (ninja-gdpr-compliance). The flaw stems from incorrectly configured access control on plugin functionality, allowing authenticated users with low privileges to reach actions that should be restricted. The issue affects all plugin versions up to and including 2.7.3. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-862: Missing Authorization and is documented in the Patchstack Vulnerability Report.

Critical Impact
Authenticated attackers with low-level privileges can access plugin functionality without proper authorization checks, leading to disclosure of limited confidential data on affected WordPress sites.

Affected Products

Ninja Team GDPR CCPA Compliance Support (ninja-gdpr-compliance) plugin for WordPress
All versions from initial release through 2.7.3
WordPress sites running the plugin with any authenticated user account

Discovery Timeline

2025-05-19 - CVE-2025-48260 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-48260

Vulnerability Analysis

The plugin exposes functionality that fails to verify whether the current user is authorized to invoke it. Under CWE-862, the code path executes without checking user capabilities or roles before performing sensitive operations.

Exploitation requires network access to the WordPress site and a valid authenticated session with any privilege level. No user interaction is needed to trigger the flaw. The scope is limited to confidentiality impact, meaning integrity and availability of the site are not directly affected.

Because the plugin manages GDPR and CCPA compliance workflows, exposed endpoints may return data related to consent records, user preferences, or compliance configuration that should be restricted to administrators.

Root Cause

The root cause is the absence of proper capability checks within one or more plugin action handlers. WordPress plugins are expected to gate privileged actions using current_user_can() checks and, where appropriate, check_admin_referer() or check_ajax_referer() for nonce validation. In ninja-gdpr-compliance through version 2.7.3, these authorization gates are either missing or improperly scoped, allowing subscriber-level accounts to reach code paths intended for administrators.

Attack Vector

An attacker with a low-privileged WordPress account, such as a subscriber on a site that permits open registration, sends a crafted HTTP request to a plugin endpoint. The request targets an AJAX action or admin-post handler exposed by ninja-gdpr-compliance. Because the handler does not enforce a capability check, the request executes and returns data the attacker should not be able to access. See the Patchstack advisory for technical details.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-48260

Indicators of Compromise

Requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php or wp-admin/admin-post.php referencing ninja-gdpr-compliance actions from accounts without administrative roles
Unexpected access to GDPR or CCPA compliance data or configuration by subscriber, contributor, or author accounts
Anomalous outbound responses containing consent records or plugin configuration data to non-admin sessions

Detection Strategies

Review WordPress access logs for authenticated but low-privileged users invoking plugin-specific AJAX or admin-post actions
Correlate WordPress user role data with request patterns to identify privilege mismatches
Inspect application-layer telemetry for repeated requests to ninja-gdpr-compliance endpoints from a single low-privileged account

Monitoring Recommendations

Enable verbose logging on the WordPress site to capture AJAX action names, requesting user IDs, and response sizes
Alert on new subscriber-level accounts that immediately begin interacting with plugin administration endpoints
Ingest web server and WordPress audit logs into a centralized analytics platform to baseline normal plugin usage and flag deviations

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-48260

Immediate Actions Required

Update the Ninja Team GDPR CCPA Compliance Support plugin to a version later than 2.7.3 as soon as the vendor publishes a fix
Audit all WordPress user accounts and remove or disable unnecessary low-privileged users, especially on sites with open registration
Restrict access to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php for unauthenticated and low-privileged users where feasible via a web application firewall rule

Patch Information

Refer to the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for the latest patched version information. The advisory indicates the flaw is present in versions through 2.7.3; administrators should apply any vendor update that supersedes this version and verify the plugin changelog references authorization hardening.

Workarounds

Temporarily deactivate the ninja-gdpr-compliance plugin until a patched release is installed
Disable open user registration in WordPress settings to reduce the pool of accounts that can authenticate
Deploy a web application firewall rule that blocks requests to the affected plugin actions from non-administrator sessions

bash

# Disable open registration and verify plugin status via WP-CLI
wp option update users_can_register 0
wp plugin deactivate ninja-gdpr-compliance
wp plugin list --name=ninja-gdpr-compliance --fields=name,status,version