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CVE-2025-6813: aapanel WP Toolkit 1.0 - 1.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via auto_login() Function

• 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: 2025-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The aapanel WP Toolkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization checks within the auto_login() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to bypass all role checks and gain full admin privileges.

Affected products

• aapanel WP Toolkit: from 1.0 through 1.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/aapanel-wp-toolkit/tags/1.1/includes/class-aapanel-wp-toolkit-agent.php#L74
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/aapanel-wp-toolkit/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/430a0b93-2cb7-45bf-86ac-4a8b3a0be77a?source=cve

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