CVE-2025-25225 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Hikashop component versions 1.0.0 through 5.1.3 for Joomla. An authenticated administrator can exploit this flaw to escalate their privileges to Super Admin permissions. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires high privileges and user interaction, but successful exploitation grants high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.0.0, <= 5.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hikashop:hikashop:*:*:*:*:*:joomla\!:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.