CVE-2025-10299 Missing authorization in Bifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links
Authenticated subscribers can create admin accounts due to missing capability checks in the WPBifröst plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-10299?
CVE-2025-10299 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in hakik Bifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links, published on 15 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ctl_create_link AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts and subsequently log in as those.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-10299?
How do I fix CVE-2025-10299?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-10299 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-10299 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10299 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4vhf-2fv2-ggw8.