Golo <= 1.7.0 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2025-4797
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published June 2, 2025
Last Updated August 26, 2025
Researcher Foxyyy
Description

The Golo - City Travel Guide WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to setting an authorization cookie. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including administrators, provided they know the user's email address. CVE-2025-54725 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug golo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.0
Patched Version
  • 1.7.1
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