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CVE-2025-1671: Academist Membership <= 1.1.6 - Authentication Bypass via Account Takeover

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-288

Description

The Academist Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to the academist_membership_check_facebook_user() function not properly verifying a user's identity prior to authenticating them. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including site administrators.

Affected products

• Elated-Themes Academist Membership: through 1.1.6

References

• https://themeforest.net/item/academist-a-modern-learning-management-system-and-education-theme/22376830
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/911a9550-1f62-4f28-9d8c-00d9769949c9?source=cve

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