# CVE-2025-2168: Cross-site request forgery in Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor

> Unauthenticated attackers can trick admins into updating user meta, potentially locking them out of the site via CSRF.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 May 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2982-34wj-7m53

## What is CVE-2025-2168?

CVE-2025-2168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor, published on 1 May 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Ultimate Store Kit Elementor Addons, Woocommerce Builder, EDD Builder, Elementor Store Builder, Product Grid, Product Table, Woocommerce Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the dismiss() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to set arbitrary user meta values to `1` which can be leveraged to lock and administrator out of their site via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2168?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-2168?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2168 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-2168 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2168 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor

- [CVE-2024-8030](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8030/): Deserialization in Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-5335](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5335/): Deserialization in Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-43342](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43342/): Cross-site scripting in Ultimate Store Kit Elementor Addons (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2168 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-2168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor, published on 1 May 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2168 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit – Addon For WooCommerce, EDD and Elementor. 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-2025-2168/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2168/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2168
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2168
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2168

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2168/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.