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ghsa-mrfc-r624-5cgr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-04-25 09:31

Modified

2025-04-25 09:31

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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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  "modified": "2025-04-25T09:31:48Z",
  "published": "2025-04-25T09:31:48Z",
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    },
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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.

References

URL

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	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e0cba5b-5833-4c02-ac17-830994b0f207?source=cve
	https://themeforest.net/item/vikinger-buddypress-and-gamipress-social-community/28612259

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Odin_Design	Vikinger	Version: * ≤ 1.9.30

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