CVE-2026-14805

Consulting - Business, Finance WordPress Theme <= 6.7.16 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via AJAX

Published: Sep 15, 2026Updated: Sep 17, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-269

8.8HIGH

Description

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-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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected Products

StylemixThemes

commercialaka stylemixthemes.com, stylemix themes

Consulting - Business, Finance WordPress ThemeOn-prem

Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-theme

Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

Privilege Escalation

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References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc8dffc2-ae5b-4482-9eba-adc439a52c26?source=cve

wordfence.com

https://themeforest.net/item/consulting-business-finance-wordpress-theme/14740561#item-description__changelog

themeforest.net

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