CVE-2025-1653 describes a high-severity Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Directory Listings WordPress plugin, uListing, affecting all versions up to and including 2.1.7. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access to elevate their privileges to administrator status due to insufficient restrictions on user meta updates via the stm_listing_profile_edit AJAX action. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability presents a significant risk, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:stylemixthemes:ulisting:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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