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.
History

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Vikinger <= 1.9.30 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via 'vikinger_user_meta_update_ajax'
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2025-04-25T06:45:28.836Z

Updated: 2025-04-25T16:01:45.691Z

Reserved: 2025-03-11T23:50:47.122Z

Link: CVE-2025-2238

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-25T15:38:50.453Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-04-25T07:15:47.523

Modified: 2025-04-29T13:52:28.490

Link: CVE-2025-2238

cve-icon Redhat

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