{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8999 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8999 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-8999 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in athemes Sydney, published on 17 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-8999 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-8999 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in athemes Sydney, published on 17 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8999 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: athemes Sydney. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8999/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8999/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-8999","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8999/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-8999","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8p5x-g3gq-fwxp"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress theme","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Authenticated subscribers can modify theme module settings due to missing capability checks in the Sydney WordPress theme.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"The Sydney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'activate_modules' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.56. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate or deactivate various theme modules.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Sydney \u003c= 2.56 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Theme Options Update","id":"CVE-2025-8999","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Mechrevo Control Center GX V2 reg File uncontrolled search path","id":"CVE-2025-9000"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in AXIS OS","id":"CVE-2025-8998"},"products":["Sydney"],"published":"2025-09-17","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["athemes"]},"summary":"Authenticated subscribers can modify theme module settings due to missing capability checks in the Sydney WordPress theme.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-8999/"}