# CVE-2025-5117: Privilege escalation in Property – Real Estate Directory Listing

> Authenticated attackers with Author-level access can escalate privileges to administrator by manipulating package metadata during PayPal registration.

- **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:** 27 May 2025
- **Updated:** 27 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9x9p-9538-ffc5

## What is CVE-2025-5117?

CVE-2025-5117 is a high-severity vulnerability in themeglow Property – Real Estate Directory Listing, published on 27 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5117?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-5117?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5117 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5117 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5117 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5117 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5117 is a high-severity vulnerability in themeglow Property – Real Estate Directory Listing, published on 27 May 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-2025-5117 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: themeglow Property – Real Estate Directory Listing. 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-2025-5117/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5117/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5117
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5117
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5117

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5117/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.