Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a Missing Authorization issue in the WP Media Adminimize plugin. It occurs because of incorrectly configured access control security levels, which means that certain actions or resources may be accessible without proper authorization checks.

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Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can allow unauthorized users with limited privileges to access or exploit parts of the Adminimize plugin that should be restricted. This could lead to unauthorized information disclosure or manipulation of media settings.

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Compliance Impact

The provided information does not specify any direct impact of the CVE-2026-49045 vulnerability on compliance with common standards and regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA.

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Mitigation Strategies

The vulnerability affects Adminimize plugin versions up to and including 1.11.11 and allows unprivileged users to perform actions requiring higher privileges due to missing authorization checks.

As of the report date, there is no official patch available for this vulnerability.

Immediate mitigation steps include updating the plugin immediately if an update becomes available, or seeking assistance from your hosting provider or web developer to implement access control restrictions or other protective measures.

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Detection Guidance

This vulnerability involves missing authorization checks in the WordPress Adminimize plugin up to version 1.11.11, allowing unprivileged users to perform restricted actions.

Detection typically involves verifying the plugin version installed on your WordPress site and testing whether users with Subscriber-level access can perform actions that should require higher privileges.

Since this is an application-level access control issue, network-level detection commands are not directly applicable.

To detect the vulnerable plugin version, you can use WP-CLI commands such as:

• wp plugin list --status=active
• wp plugin get adminimize --field=version

To test for the vulnerability, attempt to perform restricted Adminimize actions while logged in as a Subscriber user and observe if unauthorized access is possible.

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