CVE-2025-11164: Mavix Education <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) 'Creativ Demo Importer' Plugin Activation

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-12-13 · updated 2026-10-07
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Mavix Education theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mavix_education_activate_plugin' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate the Creativ Demo Importer plugin.

Affected products

creativthemes Mavix Education: through 1.0

References

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=297888%40mavix-education&new=297888%40mavix-education
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a8e57528-010f-4ec6-917b-4cd8c3fdbd58?source=cve

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