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CVE-2025-9049: Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber +) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

• 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: 2026-09-05 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'nokri_account_member_permissions' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add new Subscriber users with employer account member permissions, who in turn can escalate privileges by updating the email address of any user, including Administrator users.

Affected products

• scriptsbundle Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme: through 1.6.4

References

• https://themeforest.net/item/nokri-job-board-wordpress-theme/22677241#item-description__nokri-theme-change-logs
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e079e886-70a5-4188-ad99-96fc37651ed0?source=cve

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