CVE-2025-4179 (GCVE-0-2025-4179)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 01:43 – Updated: 2025-05-02 17:37
VLAI?
Title
Flynax Bridge <= 2.2.0 - Unauthenticated Limited Privilege Escalation
Summary
The Flynax Bridge plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to limited Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the registerUser() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register new user accounts as authors.
Severity ?
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
v1rustyle Flynax Bridge Affected: * , ≤ 2.2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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