WP Foodbakery <= 4.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in foodbakery_registration_validation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-0180
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 10, 2025
Last Updated February 28, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The WP Foodbakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what user meta can be updated during profile registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register on the site as an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-foodbakery (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.7
Patched Version
  • 4.8
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