CVE-2025-49388: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Miraculous Core Plugin for WordPress contains a critical Privilege Escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-49388) that affects all versions up to and including 2.0.7. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher 0xd4rk5id3 and was publicly disclosed on August 21, 2025. This security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to administrator level (Rapid7, Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been classified as an Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N). The scope is unchanged (S:U) with high impact on confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H) (NVD).

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to administrator level, potentially enabling them to take full control of the affected WordPress website. This level of access could lead to complete website compromise, allowing attackers to modify content, install malicious plugins, or access sensitive information (Patchstack).

Website administrators are advised to immediately update to version 2.0.8 or later of the Miraculous Core Plugin, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. For users of Patchstack, a virtual patch has been issued to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until the update can be applied (Patchstack).