{"id":70365,"date":"2025-09-17T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8999-sydney\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:01:53","slug":"cve-2025-8999-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8999-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8999 &#8211; Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8999<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Sept. 17, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 44\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Sydney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the &#8216;activate_modules&#8217; 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 5.3 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-8999 Published : Sept. 17, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 44\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Sydney theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the &#8216;activate_modules&#8217; function in all versions up to, and including, 2.56. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}