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OceanWP <= 4.1.1 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update

CVE-2025-8944Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.1.1Update to 4.1.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch theme
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

OceanWP oceanwp

  1. Affected≤ 4.1.1
  2. Patched in4.1.2

Update to 4.1.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.1.1. Version 4.1.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under OceanWP.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.1.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch OceanWP to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Hamit Cibo.

The OceanWP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ocean_update_search_box_light_mode AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the darkMod setting.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in OceanWP

All 7
More vulnerabilities in OceanWP
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.2.7Update to 4.2.8
CVE-2026-115592
Medium4.34.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Ocean Extra Plugin Installation
4.0.9 – 4.1.1Update to 4.1.2
CVE-2025-8891
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Magnific Popups JavaScript Library
≤6.0.4Update to 6.0.5
CVE-2024-5647
Medium4.9Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Select HTML Tag
≤4.0.9Update to 4.1.0
CVE-2025-5524
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure via Limited Local File Inclusion
≤3.5.4Update to 3.5.5
CVE-2024-2476

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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.

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