CubeWP Plugin up to 1.1.23 on WordPress update_user_meta privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in CubeWP Plugin up to 1.1.23 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function update_user_meta. The manipulation results in Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-4315. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in CubeWP Plugin up to 1.1.23 on WordPress. Affected is the function update_user_meta. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The CubeWP – All-in-One Dynamic Content Framework plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.23. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to update arbitrary user meta through the update_user_meta() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-4315 since 05/05/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/10/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-18093). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• CubeWP Plugin

Version

• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.7
• 1.1.8
• 1.1.9
• 1.1.10
• 1.1.11
• 1.1.12
• 1.1.13
• 1.1.14
• 1.1.15
• 1.1.16
• 1.1.17
• 1.1.18
• 1.1.19
• 1.1.20
• 1.1.21
• 1.1.22
• 1.1.23

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