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CVE-2025-5018: Hive Support plugin for WordPress missing capability check on AI chat settings

Source: NVD(opens in a new tab)
Identifier: CVE-2025-5018
Published: June 6, 2025
Record updated: October 9, 2026

Known exploitation: Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog at the last check.
EPSS: 0.3%

Summary

The Hive Support plugin for WordPress, up to and including version 1.2.4, lacks a capability check on the hs_update_ai_chat_settings() and hive_lite_support_get_all_binbox() functions. Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or above can read and overwrite the site's OpenAI API key and inspection data, or modify AI-chat prompts and behavior. The source notes this may be a duplicate of CVE-2025-32208 or CVE-2025-32242.

Mitigation

The source does not state a fix yet. Check the original advisory for updates.

Details

Scores and exploitation

CVSS score: 7.1(high)
EPSS: 0.3%Estimated probability that this CVE is exploited in the next 30 days, from the FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System. Read on November 3, 2026.

Weaknesses and techniques

Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Attack pattern (CAPEC): CAPEC-122

Affected

Vendors: OpenAI

Classification

Attack type: Other
Attack sophistication: Trivial
AI component targeted: Plugin
Impact: Confidentiality,
Integrity
Labels: security,
industry

How this record was produced

Summaries, mitigations and labels on this page are generated automatically from the source. The linked source is authoritative. The source gives this advisory a description and no title, so the title above is a headline generated from the source text.

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5018

First tracked: February 15, 2026 at 08:49 PM ET, from NVD/CVE Database

Classifier: claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v4

Classifier confidence: 90% (self-assessed)

Summary

Mitigation

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