CVE-2025-9114

Critical

Published: 08 September 2025

Published

08 September 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 0.0030 53.2th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-9114 is a critical-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) 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 46.8% 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-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

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-3 Access Enforcement good match

prevent

Directly enforces approved authorizations for accessing system resources, preventing authorization bypasses that enable unauthenticated password changes.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Validates user-controlled inputs to block manipulation of objects that leads to authorization bypass and arbitrary password changes.

IA-5 Authenticator Management partial match

prevent

Manages authenticators like passwords with protections against unauthorized modifications, mitigating impacts of bypass-enabled changes.

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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T1098 Account Manipulation Persistence

Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain and/or elevate access to victim systems.

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Why these techniques?

Direct remote exploitation of public-facing WordPress theme via auth bypass (T1190) to perform unauthorized account password changes (T1098).

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

NVD Description

The Doccure theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary User Password Change in versions up to, and including, 1.5.0. This is due to the plugin providing user-controlled access to objects, letting a user bypass authorization and access system resources. This…

makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change user passwords and potentially take over administrator accounts.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-9114 is an authorization bypass vulnerability (CWE-639) in the Doccure theme for WordPress, affecting versions up to and including 1.5.0. Published on 2025-09-08, it stems from the theme providing user-controlled access to objects, allowing attackers to bypass authorization checks and access system resources. This enables arbitrary user password changes, with a critical CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H), indicating high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction or privileges required. By leveraging the flawed object access, they can change passwords for any user account, including administrators, potentially achieving full site takeover and unauthorized control over the WordPress installation.

Advisories and additional details are available from sources including the Wordfence threat intelligence report at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f8b1d8f-b2b6-415c-91f2-e5b98048258d?source=cve and the Doccure theme page on ThemeForest at https://themeforest.net/item/doccure-medical-wordpress-theme/34329202.