The WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ctl_create_link AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts and subsequently log in as those.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.8NVD modified 2026-10-08 12:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3379010%40create-temporary-login&new=3379010%40create-temporary-login&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-temporary-login/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50946bc7-8d31-4376-bdcc-de7aad700503?source=cve