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Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing, CVE-2025-1653

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-1653

Published on
Mar 15, 2025
Research Description
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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.1.7.
Status
vulnerable