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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-5117
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 26, 2025
Last Updated May 27, 2025
Researcher kr0d
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug property (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.0.5 - 1.0.6
Patched Version
  • 1.0.7
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