WordPress theme
AdForest <= 6.0.9 — Authentication Bypass to Admin
CVE-2025-8359Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤6.0.9Update to 6.0.10 or newer
All remediation stepsCritical9.8CVSS 3.19.8CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2025-8359
- Product
- AdForest adforest
- Affected
- ≤6.0.9
- Fixed in
- 6.0.10
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Tonn
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 6.0.9
- Patched in6.0.10
Update to 6.0.10 or newer.
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
The AdForest theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.9. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity prior to authenticating them.
This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as other users, including administrators, without access to a password.
Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.
Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 6.0.10, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 9.8CVE-2026-1729Authentication Bypass
- 8.1CVE-2025-67946Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
- 5.3CVE-2025-67569Missing Authorization
- 9.8CVE-2024-12857Authentication Bypass
- 4.3CVE-2024-12855Classified Ads WordPress Theme <= 5.1.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post/Attachment Deletion
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.