CVE-2025-8944: Oceanwp

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OceanWP WordPress theme before 4.1.2 is vulnerable to an option update due to a missing capability check on one of its AJAX request handler, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to update the darkMod` setting.

Affected products

• Oceanwp Oceanwp: before 4.1.2 (fixed in 4.1.2)

Published 2025-09-05. Last modified 2026-09-30.