CVE•Published 2025-10-15•Modified 2026-04-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-10299
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
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.
Timeline
Published 2025-10-15
Modified 2026-04-08
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2025-10299Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-10299Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-10299Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-10299GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-10299" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.