{"id":"CVE-2026-14805","title":"The Consulting theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7.16","summary":"The Consulting theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7.16. This is due to a combination of two flaws: (1) the masterstudy_ms_stm_set_discard_transient AJAX endpoint in admin/admin-n…","severity":"high","cvss":8.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-269"],"vendor":"StylemixThemes","product":"Consulting - Business, Finance WordPress Theme","affected":["consulting_-_business_finance_wordpress_theme <= 6.7.16"],"published":"2026-09-15","updated":"2026-09-17","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-17T15:16:41.150","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14805","references":[{"url":"https://themeforest.net/item/consulting-business-finance-wordpress-theme/14740561#item-description__changelog","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc8dffc2-ae5b-4482-9eba-adc439a52c26?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-09-17T14:25:45.750508Z"},"epss":0.00309,"epssPercentile":0.21122,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-15T13:37:33.313Z","slug":"CVE-2026-14805","body":"## Overview\n\nThe Consulting theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7.16. This is due to a combination of two flaws: (1) the masterstudy_ms_stm_set_discard_transient AJAX endpoint in admin/admin-notices/classes/STMHandler.php accepts an arbitrary transient key without capability checks or nonce validation, and (2) the developer access login mechanism in admin/classes/stm-theme-support.php authenticates users based on a transient value without proper cryptographic validation when in legacy string mode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to set the stm_developer_access_token transient to a known value (1), then authenticate as any existing user including administrators by visiting a specially crafted URL, thereby achieving full privilege escalation to administrator.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":48,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":48.4,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}