CVE-2025-9266: Accelerate <= 1.5.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) ThemeGrill Demo Importer Plugin Installation

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-08-06 · updated 2026-09-29
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Accelerate theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the enqueue_scripts() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate the ThemeGrill Demo Importer plugin.

Affected products

themegrill Accelerate: through 1.5.3

References

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/283564/accelerate/1.5.4/inc/admin/class-accelerate-admin.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/eeacc903-9be2-4333-9528-d98707d1df55?source=cve

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