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CVE-2025-4606: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Sala - Startup & SaaS WordPress Theme for WordPress contains a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-4606) discovered in July 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.1.4. The issue was identified by researcher Thái An and was publicly disclosed on July 8, 2025 (NVD, Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper user identity validation prior to updating user details, particularly passwords. This security flaw is classified as CWE-620 (Unverified Password Change). The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating the highest severity level (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user passwords, including those of administrators. This can lead to complete account takeover and unauthorized access to administrative functions, potentially compromising the entire WordPress installation (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was addressed in version 1.1.7 released on July 17, 2025, which includes security fixes. Users are strongly advised to update to this version immediately (Theme Details).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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