CVE-2025-8999

Publication date

2025-09-17 11:25:55

Family

Wordfence

State

PUBLISHED

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.