{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1653 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1653 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-1653 is a high-severity vulnerability in stylemix Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing, published on 15 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1653 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-1653 is a high-severity vulnerability in stylemix Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing, published on 15 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1653 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: stylemix Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1653/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1653/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-1653","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1653/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-1653","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-32xh-7v7r-x3vh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator via insufficient restrictions in the uListing plugin's profile edit action.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"ulisting","vendor":"stylemixthemes"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-266","name":"Incorrect Privilege Assignment"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing \u003c= 2.2.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2025-1653","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"PDF File Parsing Heap-based Overflow Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-1656"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"MODEL File Parsing Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-1652"},"products":["Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing"],"published":"2025-03-15","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"uListing \u003c= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-4340","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"uListing \u003c= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Wordpress Options Changes via AJAX","id":"CVE-2021-4341","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"uListing \u003c= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Creation","id":"CVE-2021-4343","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"uListing \u003c= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Changes","id":"CVE-2021-4346","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"uListing \u003c= 1.6.6 - Missing Authorization","id":"CVE-2021-4370","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"uListing \u003c= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Options Changes via wp_route","id":"CVE-2021-4381","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"WordPress uListing plugin \u003c= 2.0.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-36879","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-09-27"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["stylemix"]},"summary":"Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator via insufficient restrictions in the uListing plugin's profile edit action.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1653/"}