---
id: CVE-2025-10299
title: >-
  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
summary: >-
  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 …
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-862
published: '2025-10-15'
updated: '2026-10-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-08T12:10:00.217'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10299'
references:
  - url: >-
      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=
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-temporary-login/'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50946bc7-8d31-4376-bdcc-de7aad700503?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00358
epssPercentile: 0.27509
ingestedAt: '2026-10-08T11:31:27.422Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.