CVE-2025-1653

The Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. 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.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ulisting/	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4181b26e-89c7-4020-a3d4-29bdc88d7438?source=cve	Mitigation Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:stylemixthemes:ulisting:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-03-15 03:15

Updated : 2025-03-28 13:17

NVD link : CVE-2025-1653

Mitre link : CVE-2025-1653

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-1653

JSON object : View

Products Affected

stylemixthemes

ulisting

CWE

CWE-266

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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