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CVE-2025-7722 Detail

Description

The Social Streams plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their user meta information in the update_user_meta() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change their user type to that of an administrator.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-streams/trunk/src/php/JsonAPI.php#275 Wordfence
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3f01b88-6f93-4ee8-8d59-9165ebcd4dd1?source=cve Wordfence

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-272 Least Privilege Violation Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-7722
NVD Published Date:
07/22/2025
NVD Last Modified:
07/25/2025
Source:
Wordfence