CVE-2025-5812: Vgwort Vg Wort Metis

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VG WORT METIS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the gutenberg_save_post() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update limited post settings.

Affected products

• Vgwort Vg Wort Metis: up to and including 2.0.0

Published 2025-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.