aapanel WP Toolkit 1.0 - 1.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via auto_login() Function

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-6813
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 17, 2025
Last Updated November 5, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The aapanel WP Toolkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization checks within the auto_login() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to bypass all role checks and gain full admin privileges.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug aapanel-wp-toolkit (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.0 - 1.1
Patched Version
  • 1.2
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