Lafka Plugin <= 7.1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Theme Option Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-1233
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 4, 2025
Last Updated April 5, 2025
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Lafka Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'lafka_options_upload' AJAX function in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the theme option that overrides the site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug lafka-plugin (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 7.1.0
Patched Version
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