Social Streams <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Least Privilege Violation
CVE CVE-2025-7722
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 22, 2025
Last Updated July 23, 2025
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-streams (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.1
Patched Version
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