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CVE-2025-8572: Truelysell Core <= 1.8.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Registration

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-02-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The Truelysell Core plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions less than, or equal to, 1.8.7. This is due to insufficient validation of the user_role parameter during user registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create accounts with elevated privileges, including administrator access.

Affected products

• dreamstechnologies Truelysell Core: through 1.8.7

References

• https://themeforest.net/item/truelysell-service-booking-wordpress-theme/43398124
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b027c9f9-3144-4783-b646-ee1e02cd27ef?source=cve

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