Vikinger Theme up to 1.9.30 on WordPress vikinger_user_meta_update_ajax privileges management

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Vikinger Theme up to 1.9.30 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function vikinger_user_meta_update_ajax. The manipulation results in Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-2238. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Vikinger Theme up to 1.9.30 on WordPress. Affected is the function vikinger_user_meta_update_ajax. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-2238 since 03/11/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/25/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

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• Vikinger Theme

Version

• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8
• 1.9.9
• 1.9.10
• 1.9.11
• 1.9.12
• 1.9.13
• 1.9.14
• 1.9.15
• 1.9.16
• 1.9.17
• 1.9.18
• 1.9.19
• 1.9.20
• 1.9.21
• 1.9.22
• 1.9.23
• 1.9.24
• 1.9.25
• 1.9.26
• 1.9.27
• 1.9.28
• 1.9.29
• 1.9.30

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