CVE-2025-5483 (GCVE-0-2025-5483)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-07 03:27 – Updated: 2025-11-07 17:47
VLAI
Title
LC Wizard 1.2.10 - 1.3.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
The LC Wizard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check in the ghl-wizard/inc/wp_user.php file in versions 1.2.10 to 1.3.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with the administrator role when the PRO functionality is enabled.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
niaj Connector Wizard (formerly LC Wizard) Affected: 1.2.10 , ≤ 1.3.0 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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