CVE-2025-6042 (GCVE-0-2025-6042)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-15 05:23
Modified
2026-04-08 17:15
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pebas | Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme |
Version: 0 ≤ 1.4.0 |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
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