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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-1657
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 14, 2025
Last Updated April 17, 2025
Researcher Phat RiO - BlueRock
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ulisting (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.0
Patched Version
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