High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 15, 2025· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2025-1653
CVE-2025-1653
Description
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.
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References
2- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4181b26e-89c7-4020-a3d4-29bdc88d7438nvdMitigationThird Party Advisory
- wordpress.org/plugins/ulisting/nvdProduct
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