CVE-2025-2238 – Vikinger WordPress Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-2238

Published : April 25, 2025, 7:15 a.m. | 42 minutes ago

Description : 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.

Severity: 8.8 | HIGH

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