CVE•Published 2025-10-09•Modified 2026-10-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2025-6038

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

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 77% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-639Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Description

The Lisfinity Core - Lisfinity Core plugin used for pebas® Lisfinity WordPress theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via password update in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including those of administrators.

Timeline

Published 2025-10-09

Modified 2026-10-08

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

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).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2025-6038

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2025-6038

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-6038

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2025-6038