Severity: High (CVSS 8.8)
Affected Systems: Scriptsbundle Nokri – Job Board Wordpress Theme; Wordpress Wordpress
Overview
Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme
A high vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-9049 has been disclosed.
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.
Risk
CVSS and CISA data indicate the following:
- Review the OpenCVE and vendor advisory for exploit conditions and impact
OpenCVE Analysis
CVSS v4.0 N/ACVSS v3.1 8.8 HighCVSS v3.0 N/ACVSS v2 N/AKEV noEPSS noSSVC no
- OpenCVE title: Nokri – Job Board WordPress Theme <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber +) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
- Severity score: High (CVSS 8.8)
- Weaknesses: CWE-862
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
Required Action
Review the OpenCVE detail page and linked vendor advisory, then apply the vendor-provided update or mitigation for the affected product.
Prioritize systems where the affected product is internet-facing, handles authentication, or runs with elevated privileges.
Verify Updates
Confirm whether your environment uses the affected product(s): Scriptsbundle Nokri – Job Board Wordpress Theme; Wordpress Wordpress.
After remediation, verify the installed version against the fixed or unaffected versions listed by the vendor.
Temporary Mitigation (if patch is not available)
Use the mitigation published by the vendor. If no vendor mitigation is available, reduce exposure to the affected product, restrict access to trusted users or networks, and increase monitoring until an update can be applied.
Recommendation
- Use OpenCVE, vendor, and source references as the source of truth for affected versions and remediation
- Patch or mitigate affected products after confirming exposure in your environment
- Monitor affected systems for unusual activity until remediation is complete
Support
If you require assistance, please contact our support team.
Immediate action is strongly recommended to protect your infrastructure.
Source Details
Customer Responsibility and Backups
Before applying updates, mitigations, or configuration changes, customers should take and verify current backups or snapshots of affected systems.
Customers are responsible for managing their servers, validating their own backups, testing changes, and ensuring they can restore services if an update or mitigation causes an issue.
Saturday, September 5, 2026
