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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EUVD-2025-12389 | 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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Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +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 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-25T16:01:45.691Z
Reserved: 2025-03-11T23:50:47.122Z
Link: CVE-2025-2238
Updated: 2025-04-25T15:38:50.453Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-04-25T07:15:47.523
Modified: 2025-04-29T13:52:28.490
Link: CVE-2025-2238
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2025-07-12T22:44:57Z
EUVD