Nokri - Job Board WordPress Theme <= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'token' Parameter
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.6.7
- Affected Theme
- Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 1.6.6- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
- CVE
CVE-2026-18550
At a glance
CVE-2026-18550 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Nokri WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.6.6. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.6.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2026, reported by d.v4n_s3c.
Vulnerability Overview
The Nokri - Job Board WordPress Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.6. This is due to insufficient reset token validation in the `nokri_reset_password()` function, which allows empty attacker-supplied reset tokens to match empty or unset `sb_password_forget_token` user meta values. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the password of any user, including administrators, and gain access to their account.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
Nokri <= 1.6.6 carries this weakness at nokri_reset_password(), and reaching it 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 Nokri the fix is 1.6.7: builds <= 1.6.6 are affected, anything from 1.6.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.6.7, 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: Nokri 1.6.7 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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