CVE-2025-1653

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
stylemixDirectory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing0 <= 2.2.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-266: CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References