Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2025-6038
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 8, 2025
Last Updated October 9, 2025
Researcher Alyudin Nafiie
Description

The Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via password update in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including those of administrators.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug lisfinity-core (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.0
Patched Version
  • 1.5.0
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