CVE-2025-6758

Critical

Published: 19 August 2025

Published

19 August 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0031 53.7th percentile

Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-6758 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Themeforest (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 46.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-2 (Account Management) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

AC-2 Account Management good match

prevent

AC-2 requires organizations to manage account creation and privilege assignments, directly preventing unauthenticated attackers from self-escalating to Administrator roles during registration.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

AC-6 enforces least privilege, ensuring new user accounts are assigned only minimal necessary roles and blocking arbitrary high-privilege selections like Administrator.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

SI-10 mandates validation of information inputs such as the unrestricted role parameter in the imic_agent_register function, preventing attackers from specifying unauthorized roles.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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Why these techniques?

Direct unauthenticated exploitation of public-facing WordPress registration function enables arbitrary high-privilege account creation (admin), matching initial access via public app exploit and privilege escalation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

The Real Spaces - WordPress Properties Directory Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via the 'imic_agent_register' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.6. This is due to a lack of restriction in the registration role.…

This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to arbitrarily choose their role, including the Administrator role, during user registration.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-6758 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Real Spaces - WordPress Properties Directory Theme for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.6. The flaw arises in the 'imic_agent_register' function due to a lack of restriction on the registration role, enabling attackers to select arbitrary roles during user registration. It is classified under CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction or privileges required. By registering a new user account and specifying a high-privilege role such as Administrator, attackers gain full control over the affected WordPress site, potentially compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation details are available in advisories including the Wordfence threat intelligence report at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2b24858-dfcd-46f3-9552-c7acc63a1ee7?source=cve and the theme's page on ThemeForest at https://themeforest.net/item/real-spaces-wordpress-real-estate-theme/8219779.