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CVE-2025-1657: Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing <= 2.2.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Meta Update and PHP Object Injection

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• Stylemix uListing: through 2.1.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3261184/ulisting/trunk/includes/classes/StmListing.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ulisting/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e70184f-94b6-4742-b99b-6eec9d28f17c?source=cve

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