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CVE-2025-6042: Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme <= 1.4.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Editor

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 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: 2025-10-15 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to the plugin assigning the editor role by default. While limitations with respect to capabilities are put in place, use of the API is not restricted. This vulnerability can be leveraged together with CVE-2025-6038 to obtain admin privileges.

Affected products

• pebas Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme: through 1.4.0

References

• https://themeforest.net/item/lisfinity-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/26342611
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/afffd5e2-798b-42b5-b0b9-ac7d6d06edbb?source=cve

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