Cardealer <= 1.6.4 - Arbitrary Theme Option Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-1682
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 27, 2025
Last Updated February 27, 2025
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4 due to missing capability check on the 'save_settings' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the default user role.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug cardealer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.4
Patched Version
  • 1.6.5
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