CVE-2025-1671 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in all versions of the Academist Membership plugin for WordPress up to and including 1.1.6. The flaw stems from insufficient identity verification within the academist_membership_check_facebook_user() function, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including administrators. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elated-Themes | Academist Membership | >= 0, <= 1.1.6CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.