CVE-2025-8999

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CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

EPSS

<1%p20

Published

Sep 17, 2025 (Sep 17, 2025)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Sydney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'activate_modules' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.56. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate or deactivate various theme modules.

Ecosystems: WordPress
Weakness: CWE-862
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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