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Description

The Platform theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the *_ajax_save_options() function in all versions up to 1.4.4 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-24 | Published 2025-07-25 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence




CRITICAL: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 1.4.4
affected

Timeline

2015-01-21:Disclosed

Credits

Marc-Alexandre Montpas finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-6b2c-433a-9105-fc15f5c52575?source=cve

blog.sucuri.net/...agelinesplatform-theme-for-wordpress.html

raw.githubusercontent.com/...unix/webapp/wp_platform_exec.rb

cve.org (CVE-2015-10143)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2015-10143)

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