CVE-2025-1653

High

Description

The Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This is due to the stm_listing_profile_edit AJAX action not having enough restriction on the user meta that can be updated. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductStylemixthemes Ulisting
PublishedMar 15, 2025
First seenMar 15, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-266CWE-266

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
stylemixthemes ulistingv ≤ 2.1.7—

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