CVE-2025-3915
📋 TL;DR
The Aeropage Sync for Airtable WordPress plugin has an authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level permissions or higher to delete arbitrary posts. This affects all WordPress sites using the plugin version 3.2.0 or earlier. The vulnerability stems from a missing capability check in the 'aeropageDeletePost' function.
💻 Affected Systems
- Aeropage Sync for Airtable WordPress Plugin
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Malicious authenticated users could delete all posts on the WordPress site, causing complete content loss and potential business disruption.
Likely Case
Low-privilege users or compromised accounts deleting important posts, leading to content loss and website integrity issues.
If Mitigated
With proper user access controls and monitoring, impact would be limited to isolated post deletions that could be restored from backups.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access but is technically simple - just needs to call the vulnerable function with appropriate parameters.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Version after 3.2.0
Vendor Advisory: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3281904/
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Log into WordPress admin panel. 2. Navigate to Plugins → Installed Plugins. 3. Find 'Aeropage Sync for Airtable'. 4. Click 'Update Now' if available. 5. Alternatively, download latest version from WordPress plugin repository and manually update.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable Plugin
allTemporarily disable the vulnerable plugin until patched
wp plugin deactivate aeropage-sync-for-airtable
Restrict User Roles
allLimit Subscriber and other low-privilege accounts until patched
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict user access controls and monitor for unusual post deletion activity
- Enable comprehensive logging and implement regular backups to restore deleted content
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Aeropage Sync for Airtable → Version. If version is 3.2.0 or lower, you are vulnerable.Check Version:
wp plugin get aeropage-sync-for-airtable --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
After update, verify plugin version is higher than 3.2.0 in WordPress admin panel.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual post deletion activity from low-privilege users
- Multiple DELETE requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with aeropageDeletePost action
Network Indicators:
- POST requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with action=aeropageDeletePost from non-admin users
SIEM Query:
source="wordpress.log" action="aeropageDeletePost" user_role="subscriber" OR user_role="contributor" OR user_role="author"🔗 References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/aeropage-sync-for-airtable/trunk/aeropage.php#L475
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/aeropage-sync-for-airtable/trunk/aeropage.php#L476
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3281904/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f98aab54-877b-47df-9c8a-5e70ea985c1c?source=cve
