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Publication date: 2025-10-15

Last updated on: 2025-10-16

Assigner: Wordfence

Description

The Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to the plugin assigning the editor role by default. While limitations with respect to capabilities are put in place, use of the API is not restricted. This vulnerability can be leveraged together with CVE-2025-6038 to obtain admin privileges.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-10-15

Last Modified

2025-10-16

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-10-15

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-6042

EUVD

EUVD-2025-34512

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
lisfinity	core_plugin	1.4.0

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-269	The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

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Executive Summary

The Lisfinity Core plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation because it assigns the editor role by default, which has limited capabilities but does not restrict API use. This flaw allows an attacker to leverage the vulnerability, especially when combined with CVE-2025-6038, to gain admin privileges.

Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can allow an attacker to escalate their privileges from an editor role to an administrator role, potentially giving them full control over the WordPress site, including the ability to modify content, settings, and user permissions.

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