Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Editor
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.5.0
- Affected Version
<= 1.4.0- CVSS
- 7.3High
- Weakness type
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
- CVE
CVE-2025-6042
At a glance
CVE-2025-6042 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.4.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.5.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2025, reported by Alyudin Nafiie.
Vulnerability Overview
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.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
Reaching this weakness in Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 takes no account at all. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.
It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme the fix is 1.5.0: builds <= 1.4.0 are affected, anything from 1.5.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.5.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme 1.5.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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