CVE Alert: CVE-2025-5117
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-5117
The Property plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the use of the property_package_user_role metadata in versions 1.0.5 to 1.0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author‐level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator by creating a package post whose property_package_user_role is set to administrator and then submitting the PayPal registration form.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
5/27/2025, 12:15:36 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedEPS Score: 0.00046 | Ranking EPS: 0.13728
References:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/property/tags/1.0.6/admin/pages/payment-inc/paypal-submit.php#L128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/property/tags/1.0.6/property.php#L1964
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3299714/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/property/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df48f7f9-7bc9-4f9b-b9b5-6bfb86309030?source=cve
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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