Privilege Escalation in Restaurant Cafeteria Theme by WordPress
CVE-2025-15445
Key Information:
- Vendor
WordPress
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 28 March 2026
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What is CVE-2025-15445?
The Restaurant Cafeteria WordPress theme, up to version 0.4.6, contains a vulnerability that exposes insecure admin-ajax actions. This flaw allows any logged-in user, including those with subscriber roles, to execute privileged operations without proper nonce or capability checks. An attacker could exploit this by installing and activating malicious plugins sourced from user-supplied URLs, enabling arbitrary PHP code execution. Additionally, the vulnerability permits the import of demo content, potentially overwriting vital site configurations such as theme modifications, pages, menus, and front page settings.

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Affected Version(s)
Restaurant Cafeteria 0 <= 0.4.6
Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.
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