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CVE-2025-10299: WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links <= 1.0.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-15 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ctl_create_link AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts and subsequently log in as those.

Affected products

• hakik Bifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links: through 1.0.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3379010%40create-temporary-login&new=3379010%40create-temporary-login&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-temporary-login/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50946bc7-8d31-4376-bdcc-de7aad700503?source=cve

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