Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.4.22
- Affected Theme
- Woffice CRM
- Affected Version
<= 5.4.21- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
- CVE
CVE-2025-2798
At a glance
CVE-2025-2798 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Woffice CRM WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 5.4.21. 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 5.4.22; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2025, reported by Foxyyy.
Vulnerability Overview
The Woffice CRM theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.21. This is due to a misconfiguration of excluded roles during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with an Administrator role if a custom login form is being used. This can be combined with CVE-2025-2797 to bypass the user approval process if an Administrator can be tricked into taking an action such as clicking a link.
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
Reaching this weakness in Woffice CRM <= 5.4.21 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Woffice CRM the fix is 5.4.22: builds <= 5.4.21 are affected, anything from 5.4.22 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.4.22, 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: Woffice CRM 5.4.22 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Same weakness class
Other vulnerabilities in Woffice CRM
- 9.8CVE-2024-43234: Woffice <= 5.4.14 Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-43234 - 6.1CVE-2025-67918: Woffice <= 5.4.30 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2025-67918 - 6.1CVE-2024-37472: Woffice <= 5.4.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-37472 - 5.3CVE-2026-27435: Woffice CRM <= 5.4.32 Missing Authorization
CVE-2026-27435 - 5.3Woffice CRM <= 4.0.1 Authorization Bypass
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