CVE Explorer
CVE-2025-8899
The Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 7.3.20. This is due to videowhisper_register_form() function not restricting user roles that can be set during registration. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to create posts/pages with the registration form and administrator set as the role and subsequently use that form to register an admi
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams","vendor":"videowhisper","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"7.3.20","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:bb9675a5439487197f57fd75a8513a4250dfb130f929e807584eb6a5efce1319 · sha256:cb11eeef75a441ef… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:bb9675a5439487197f57fd75a8513a4250dfb130f929e807584eb6a5efce1319 · sha256:cb11eeef75a441ef… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-269","description":"CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:bb9675a5439487197f57fd75a8513a4250dfb130f929e807584eb6a5efce1319 · sha256:cb11eeef75a441ef… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
3 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ppv-live-webcams/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L2464"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:bb9675a5439487197f57fd75a8513a4250dfb130f929e807584eb6a5efce1319 · sha256:cb11eeef75a441ef… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3348788/ppv-live-webcams"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:bb9675a5439487197f57fd75a8513a4250dfb130f929e807584eb6a5efce1319 · sha256:cb11eeef75a441ef… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f71fc65f-cdc1-4f20-b37e-849ade49ee41?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:bb9675a5439487197f57fd75a8513a4250dfb130f929e807584eb6a5efce1319 · sha256:cb11eeef75a441ef… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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