Reales WP STPT <= 2.1.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Password Update

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2025-3610
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 5, 2025
Last Updated May 6, 2025
Researcher Foxyyy
Description

The Reales WP STPT plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like password. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords and email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account. This can be combined with CVE-2025-3609 to achieve remote code execution as an originally unauthenticated user with no account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug short-tax-post (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.2
Patched Version
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