{"id":"CVE-2026-105894","published":"2026-10-30T18:17:16.483","lastModified":"2026-10-30T19:18:00.977","description":"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 ajax_refresh_nonce and ak_admin_ajax handlers before passing attacker-controlled option names and values to update_option(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress options including users_can_register and default_role to escalate privileges to administrator by enabling user registration with administrator as the default role.","cvssScore":8.8,"cvssSeverity":"HIGH","cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwes":["CWE-269"],"vendors":[],"products":[],"references":[{"url":"https://docs.akbilisim.com/newsy/changelog/#v299","tags":[]},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d9f99ab9-eb22-4766-81f2-647af1229815?source=cve","tags":[]}],"exploitRefs":[],"hasPoc":false,"ai":null}