Lisfinity Core — Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2025-6038Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.4.0Update to 1.5.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme lisfinity-core
- Affected≤ 1.4.0
- Patched in1.5.0
Update to 1.5.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.4.0. Version 1.5.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.5.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Alyudin Nafiie.
The Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via password update in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including those of administrators.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.5 | Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.5.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection ≤1.5.0No patch available | CVE-2026-22484 | |
| High7.3 | Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Editor ≤1.4.0Update to 1.5.0 | CVE-2025-6042 |
- High7.5Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.5.0 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤1.5.0No patch available
- High7.3Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Editor
≤1.4.0Update to 1.5.0
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.