Title: Variable Inspector false positive valnerability
Last modified: April 7, 2026

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# Variable Inspector false positive valnerability

 *  Resolved [Pexle Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pexlechris/)
 * (@pexlechris)
 * [2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-inspector-false-positive-valnerability/)
 * Hello,
 * As you can see at this [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerability-169/)
   the Author of Variable Inspector plugin has release an update fixing the [CVE-2025-32229](https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/variable-inspector/variable-inspector-263-missing-authorization).
   But why I still got messages for this from Wordfence??

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-inspector-false-positive-valnerability/#post-18875440)
 * Hi [@pexlechris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pexlechris/),
 * Our reporting of this seems to be down to the vulnerability being verified and
   the CVE being issued by [Patchstack](https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/variable-inspector/vulnerability/wordpress-variable-inspector-plugin-2-6-3-broken-access-control-vulnerability).
   Wordfence will report these, even though we weren’t the entity that decided it
   was a valid vulnerability.
 * When a fix is confirmed by Patchstack, Wordfence will update shortly afterwards.
   We can _sometimes_ check for a fix ourselves, but would need the plugin’s developer
   to reach out to us privately with the full report.
 * Thanks,
   Peter.

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 * Last activity: [2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-inspector-false-positive-valnerability/#post-18875440)
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