CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-8999
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-09-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Sydney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'activate_modules' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.56. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate or deactivate various theme modules.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-8999/ research.cleantalk.org
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sydney/2.55/inc/classes/class-sydney-modules.php#L166 themes.trac.wordpress.org
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sydney/2.55/inc/modules/class-sydney-modules.php#L72 themes.trac.wordpress.org
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/288374/ themes.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/965582c6-a52e-4f88-81ef-b5dd761a0c23?source=cve www.wordfence.com