Pretty Google Calendar <= 2.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Google API Key Exposure
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Pretty Google Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the pgcal_ajax_handler() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the Google API key set in the plugin's settings.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12898
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2p3v-w39c-p52w
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3c15924-d430-48e3-9804-fa83605b9c24?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/pretty-google-calendar/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3422453%40pretty-google-calendar&new=3422453%40pretty-google-calendar&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
More LBell vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-22224 WordPress Pretty Google Calendar plugin <= 1.7.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-12898 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-12898 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2p3v-w39c-p52w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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