Attack Vectors

CVE-2025-62087 affects the Sticky Notes for WP Dashboard WordPress plugin (slug: wb-sticky-notes) in versions 1.2.4 and earlier. This is a Medium-severity issue (CVSS 4.3, vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

An attacker must be authenticated to your WordPress site (for example, a subscriber-level account or higher). In organizations that allow user registrations, run campaigns with customer/community logins, or maintain many internal accounts, this expands the pool of potential misuse beyond administrators.

Security Weakness

The vulnerability is caused by a missing authorization (capability) check on a plugin function. In practical terms, the plugin does not adequately confirm that the logged-in user has the right permissions before allowing a protected action.

Because the weakness is authorization-related (not a “break-in without credentials” flaw), it commonly shows up as an “inside-the-perimeter” risk: any compromised low-privilege account (or an account created through open registration) can potentially be used to trigger the unauthorized behavior.

Technical or Business Impacts

This issue enables authenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action in affected versions of Sticky Notes for WP Dashboard. While the published details indicate integrity impact is limited (CVSS indicates I:L with no confidentiality or availability impact), unauthorized changes in the WordPress dashboard environment can still create real business risk.

For leadership and compliance teams, the primary concerns are: loss of control over administrative workflows, unapproved changes that may disrupt internal operations, and audit/compliance friction if you must explain how a low-privilege account could perform actions that should have been restricted. Even “limited” integrity issues can translate into time-consuming incident response, stakeholder communications, and reduced confidence in site governance.

Remediation: Update the plugin to Sticky Notes for WP Dashboard 1.2.5 or a newer patched version. Source: Wordfence vulnerability record. CVE record: CVE-2025-62087.

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