CVE-2025-2238 (GCVE-0-2025-2238)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-25 06:45
Modified
2025-04-25 16:01
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
The Vikinger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.30. This is due to insufficient user_meta restrictions in the 'vikinger_user_meta_update_ajax' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to Administrator-level.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Odin_Design Vikinger Version: *   ≤ 1.9.30
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