Vulnerability in Database Cleaner — CVE-2025-8574

What to do now

Update Database Cleaner to 1.4.8 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 1.4.7

The Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary table deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.7. This is due to a lack of restriction on database tables that can be deleted. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to delete core WordPress tables.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/database-cleaner/trunk/classes/rest.php#L765
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3774510/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22d6aa93-b265-41eb-9be9-cd066292f2ea?source=cve

This page is compiled automatically from public databases. Accuracy is not guaranteed; confirm against the vendor advisory before acting.