CVE-2025-2798
Published: 04 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2798 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Xtendify Woffice. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Woffice CRM theme for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions through 5.4.21. The flaw stems from improper configuration of excluded roles during user registration, which permits unauthenticated attackers to create accounts with the Administrator role when a custom login form is in use. The issue is tracked as CWE-269 and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the weakness over the network to obtain full administrative access. The resulting account can then be leveraged in conjunction with CVE-2025-2797 to circumvent any administrator approval workflow, provided the attacker can socially engineer an existing administrator into performing an action such as clicking a malicious link.
The official changelog for Woffice 5.4.22, released on 1 April 2025, addresses the role-exclusion misconfiguration. Wordfence also published technical details and detection guidance for the vulnerability.
EPSS for the CVE rose from a low baseline to a recorded peak of 0.0105, indicating increased exploitation interest after public disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-9745
Vulnerability details
The Woffice CRM theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.21. This is due to a misconfiguration of excluded roles during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with…
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an Administrator role if a custom login form is being used. This can be combined with CVE-2025-2797 to bypass the user approval process if an Administrator can be tricked into taking an action such as clicking a link.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Policy addresses roles, responsibilities, and privilege management to prevent improper privilege assignments.
Access supervision ensures privileges are assigned and managed without improper escalation or retention.
Assigning group/role memberships and access authorizations (privileges) while reviewing accounts addresses improper privilege management.
Enforces proper privilege management by requiring all decisions through the verified reference monitor.
By mandating division of duties across roles, the control enforces proper privilege management and prevents a single entity from controlling an entire sensitive process.
Implements core proper privilege management by restricting to only required rights.
Policy requires training on privilege management and least privilege, making it harder to exploit improper privilege management weaknesses.
Training covers proper privilege management practices, making incorrect privilege assignments less likely.