Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Editor

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-6042
CVSS High (7.3)
Publicly Published October 14, 2025
Last Updated October 15, 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 in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to the plugin assigning the editor role by default. While limitations with respect to capabilities are put in place, use of the API is not restricted. This vulnerability can be leveraged together with CVE-2025-6038 to obtain admin privileges.

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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