CVE-2025-11522 (GCVE-0-2025-11522)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-09 07:23
Modified
2025-10-09 15:18
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Summary
The Search & Go - Directory WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.7. This is due to insufficient user validation in the search_and_go_elated_check_facebook_user() function This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain access to other user's accounts, including administrators, when Facebook login is enabled.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://themeforest.net/item/search-go-modern-smart-directory-theme/15365040
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/da590a65-8728-4577-b6e4-ecebc2a2277d?source=cve
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elated-Themes Search & Go - Directory WordPress Theme Version: *   ≤ 2.7
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