---
id: CVE-2025-11164
title: >-
  The Mavix Education theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized
  modification of data due to a missing capability check on the
  'mavix_education_activate_plugin' AJAX action in all versions up to, and
  including, 1.0
summary: >-
  The Mavix Education theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized
  modification of data due to a missing capability check on the
  'mavix_education_activate_plugin' AJAX action in all versions up to, and
  including, 1.0. This makes it po…
severity: medium
cvss: 4.3
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-862
published: '2025-12-13'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T20:10:01.970'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11164'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=297888%40mavix-education&new=297888%40mavix-education
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a8e57528-010f-4ec6-917b-4cd8c3fdbd58?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00188
epssPercentile: 0.07641
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T20:46:46.924Z'
---

## Overview

The Mavix Education theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mavix_education_activate_plugin' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate the Creativ Demo Importer plugin.

## Remediation

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