CVE-2025-10299

WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links <= 1.0.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 15, 2025 at 08:25 AM UTC
Updated: October 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBifrost

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ctl_create_link AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts and subsequently log in as those.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Bifrost· Hakikwordpress-plugin
90%
0 ≤ v ≤ 1.0.70

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

8.8HIGHWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-862

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