CVE-2025-8999 – Sydney

CVE ID : CVE-2025-8999

Published : Sept. 17, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 44 minutes ago

Description : The Sydney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ‘activate_modules’ function in all versions up to, and including, 2.56. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate or deactivate various theme modules.

Severity: 5.3 | MEDIUM

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