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The Ak Framework plugin for WordPress, included in the Newsy - Viral News & Magazine WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation…

CVE-2026-105894

The Ak Framework plugin for WordPress, included in the Newsy - Viral News & Magazine WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.8. This is due to missing capability checks in the ajaxrefreshnonce and akadminajax handlers before passing attacker-controlled option names and values to updateoption(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress options including userscanregister and defaultrole to escalate privileges to administrator by enabling user registration with administrator as the default role.

Assessment

CVSS
8.8 (v3.1)
Severity
High
Known exploited
Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability
Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published
30 October 2026
Last updated
30 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-269
Assigner
security@wordfence.com

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

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