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CVE-2025-7722: Social Streams <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

• 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: 2025-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-272

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.

Affected products

• steverio Social Streams: through 1.0.1

References

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

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