CVE-2025-0749

Homey <= 2.4.3 - Limited Authentication Bypass due to Missing Empty Value Check

2025-03-06 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.4.4
Affected Theme: Homey
Affected Version: <= 2.4.3
CVSS: 8.1High
Weakness type: CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE: CVE-2025-0749

At a glance

CVE-2025-0749 is a high-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in the Homey WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 2.4.3. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.4.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by István Márton.

Vulnerability Overview

The Homey theme for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.4.3. This is due to the 'verification_id' value being set to empty, and the not empty check is missing in the dashboard user profile page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in to the first verified user.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Homey <= 2.4.3 carries this weakness at verification_id, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authentication bypass through an alternate path means the application has a second route to a protected action that skips the checks the primary route performs.

The protection on the main path becomes irrelevant, because the attacker simply uses the route that never asks. For Homey the fix is 2.4.4: builds <= 2.4.3 are affected, anything from 2.4.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.4.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Homey 2.4.4 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0749 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05f87510-28c3-4ad1-b2be-2408a199cf68 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0749

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Homey

CVSS Vector

8.1

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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