CVE-2025-10299
WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links <= 1.0.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.8 High
- Published
- Oct 15, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2025
Description
The WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ctl_create_link AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts and subsequently log in as those.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Bifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Linkshakik |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50946bc7-8d31-4376-bdcc-de7aad700503?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-temporary-login/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3379010%40create-temporary-login&new=3379010%40create-temporary-login&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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