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CVE-2025-5117: Property 1.0.5 - 1.0.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation via property_package_user_role Metadata in PayPal Registration

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• themeglow Property – Real Estate Directory Listing: from 1.0.5 through 1.0.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/property/tags/1.0.6/admin/pages/payment-inc/paypal-submit.php#L128
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/property/tags/1.0.6/property.php#L1964
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3299714/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/property/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df48f7f9-7bc9-4f9b-b9b5-6bfb86309030?source=cve

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