WordPress Bard Theme <= 2.229 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control

Low priority No impactful threat

<= 2.229Vulnerable version(s)

No official patch availablePatched version

WordPress Theme

No VDP

31 Oct, 2025 by Patchstack

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Risks

CVSS 4.3

Vulnerabilities like this one are used in mass-exploit campaigns. Attackers use these to attack thousands of websites at a time, regardless of traffic size or popularity. Learn more.

As immediate action, update the affected plugin. If you're unable to do so, ask your hosting provider or web developer for help.

4.3

Broken Access Control

A broken access control issue refers to a missing authorization, authentication or nonce token check in a function that could lead to an unprivileged user to executing a certain higher privileged action.

CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.

Solutions

This security issue has a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited.

Remove and replace Theme.

This Theme was last updated 1 month ago and will likely not receive further updates or patches. Note that deactivating the Theme does not remove the security threat unless mitigation rule by Patchstack is deployed.