CVE•Published 2026-06-04•Modified 2026-06-04•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2019-25738
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
WordPress Hybrid Composer 1.4.6 contains an unauthenticated settings change vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to modify WordPress options by exploiting the hc_ajax_save_option action. Attackers can send POST requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the action parameter set to hc_ajax_save_option to enable user registration and set the default role to administrator, enabling account takeover.
Timeline
Published 2026-06-04
Modified 2026-06-04
External references
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More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2019-25738Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2019-25738Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2019-25738Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2019-25738GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2019-25738" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2019-25738 on GitHub.