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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-8595
CVE-2025-8595:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Zakra theme for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2025-8595) in versions up to and including 4.1.5 that allows unauthorized data modification. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on August 5, 2025, affecting the welcomenoticeimport_handler() function due to a missing capability check (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM). The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs low privileges (PR:L), requires no user interaction (UI:N), affects only the local scope (S:U), has no impact on confidentiality (C:N), low impact on integrity (I:L), and no impact on availability (A:N) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to import demo settings without proper authorization. This could lead to unauthorized modification of theme settings and potential site appearance manipulation (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to Zakra version 4.1.6 or later which contains the fix for this vulnerability. The patch implements proper capability checks for the demo import functionality (Wordfence).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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