High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 25, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-2238
CVE-2025-2238
Description
The Vikinger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.30. This is due to insufficient user_meta restrictions in the 'vikinger_user_meta_update_ajax' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to Administrator-level.
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