LC Wizard 1.2.10 - 1.3.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-5483
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published November 6, 2025
Last Updated November 7, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The LC Wizard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check in the ghl-wizard/inc/wp_user.php file in versions 1.2.10 to 1.3.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with the administrator role when the PRO functionality is enabled.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ghl-wizard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.2.10 - 1.3.0
Patched Version
  • 1.4.0
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