Age Restriction <= 3.0.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-11855
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 21, 2025
Last Updated November 17, 2025
Researcher Khaled Alenazi (Nxploited)
Description

The Premium Age Verification / Restriction for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'age_restrictionRemoteSupportRequest' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary administrative user accounts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug age-restriction (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.2
Patched Version
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