# CVE-2025-4973: Workreap <= 3.3.1 - Authentication Bypass via 'workreap_verify_user_account'

> Unauthenticated attackers can log in as registered users, including administrators, if the user's confirmation key is unset.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q5jm-5p84-m8rp

## What is CVE-2025-4973?

CVE-2025-4973 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in AmentoTech Workreap, published on 12 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Workreap plugin for WordPress, used by the Workreap - Freelance Marketplace WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's identity prior to logging them in when verifying an account with an email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as registered users, including administrators, if they know user's email address. This is only exploitable fi the user's confirmation_key has not already been set by the plugin.

Weakness: CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4973?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Amentotech Workreap.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-4973?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4973 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-4973 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4973 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in AmentoTech Workreap

- [CVE-2024-13446](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13446/): Workreap <= 3.2.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-24499](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24499/): Workreap theme < 2.2.2 - Unauthenticated Upload Leading to Remote Code Execution (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-5012](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5012/): Workreap <= 3.3.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload via 'workreap_temp_upload_to_media' (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-24500](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24500/): Workreap theme < 2.2.2 - Multiple CSRF + IDOR Vulnerabilities (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2021-24501](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24501/): Workreap theme < 2.2.2 - Missing Authorization Checks in Ajax Actions (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-4973 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-4973 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in AmentoTech Workreap, published on 12 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4973 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: AmentoTech Workreap. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4973/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4973/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4973
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4973
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4973

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-4973/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.