WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2025-8899 Deferred

Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass

Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least author-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.

CVE / CNA score 8.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams
Plugin slug
ppv-live-webcams
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Mar 07, 2026
Weakness
CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

This CVE was published Mar 07, 2026 and is one of 7 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Technical description

The Paid Videochat Turnkey Site – HTML5 PPV Live Webcams plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 7.3.20. This is due to videowhisper_register_form() function not restricting user roles that can be set during registration. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to create posts/pages with the registration form and administrator set as the role and subsequently use that form to register an administrator account. This can also be exploited by contributors, but is far less likely to be successful because an administrator would need to approve the form with the administrator role for the attack to be successful.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Primary and upstream sources