Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber +) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.6.6
- Affected Theme
- Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 1.6.4- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-9049
At a glance
CVE-2025-9049 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Nokri WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.6.4. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.6.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2026, reported by Tonn.
Vulnerability Overview
The Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'nokri_account_member_permissions' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add new Subscriber users with employer account member permissions, who in turn can escalate privileges by updating the email address of any user, including Administrator users.
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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Nokri <= 1.6.4 carries this weakness at nokri_account_member_permissions, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Nokri the fix is 1.6.6: builds <= 1.6.4 are affected, anything from 1.6.6 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.6.6, 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: Nokri 1.6.6 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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CVE-2025-1313 - 4.3CVE-2025-58259: Nokri <= 1.6.4 Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2025-58259
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