Mavix Education <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) 'Creativ Demo Importer' Plugin Activation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-11164
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 12, 2025
Last Updated December 13, 2025
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
Description

The Mavix Education theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mavix_education_activate_plugin' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate the Creativ Demo Importer plugin.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug mavix-education (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.1
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