CVE-2025-9049 Missing authorization in Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying user email addresses due to missing capability checks in the Nokri WordPress theme.
- 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-2025-9049?
CVE-2025-9049 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in scriptsbundle Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme, published on 5 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'nokri_account_member_permissions' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to add new Subscriber users with employer account member permissions, who in turn can escalate privileges by updating the email address of any user, including Administrator users.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9049?
How do I fix CVE-2025-9049?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9049 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-2025-9049 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9049 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jmp7-cgxg-w65w.