CVE-2025-3053 Code injection in UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
Authenticated attackers with Subscriber access can execute arbitrary code on the server due to missing capability checks in the UiPress lite WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-3053?
CVE-2025-3053 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in admintwentytwenty UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages, published on 15 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.07 via the uip_process_form_input() function. This is due to the function taking user supplied inputs to execute arbitrary functions with arbitrary data, and does not have any sort of capability check. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary code on the server.
Weakness: CWE-94
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3053?
How do I fix CVE-2025-3053?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2025-3053 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3053 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pf67-x6hq-5h3p.