# CVE-2025-1657: Missing authorization in Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing

> Authenticated subscribers can modify post metadata and trigger PHP object injection due to missing capability checks in the uListing plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2pvf-46qr-hp98

## What is CVE-2025-1657?

CVE-2025-1657 is a high-severity missing authorization 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.

### Official description

The Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and PHP Object Injection due to a missing capability check on the stm_listing_ajax AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update post meta data and inject PHP Objects that may be unserialized. A capability check was added in 2.1.8, but the unserialize is still present.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1657?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Stylemixthemes Ulisting.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1657?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1657 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1657 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1657 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in stylemix Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing

- [CVE-2021-4340](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4340/): uListing <= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-4341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4341/): uListing <= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Wordpress Options Changes via AJAX (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-4343](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4343/): uListing <= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Creation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-4346](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4346/): uListing <= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Changes (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-4370](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4370/): uListing <= 1.6.6 - Missing Authorization (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1657 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1657 is a high-severity missing authorization 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1657 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: stylemix Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1657/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1657/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1657
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1657
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1657

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1657/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.