# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 7 Sep 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jmp7-cgxg-w65w

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-9049 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9049 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9049 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9049 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: scriptsbundle Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme. 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-2025-9049/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9049/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9049
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9049
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9049

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9049/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.