VDB-317258 · CVE-2025-7722 · EUVD-2025-22398

Social Streams Plugin up to 1.0.1/1.2.1 on WordPress update_user_meta least privilege violation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Social Streams Plugin up to 1.0.1/1.2.1 on WordPress and classified as critical. The impacted element is the function update_user_meta. Such manipulation leads to Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-7722. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Social Streams Plugin up to 1.0.1/1.2.1 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function update_user_meta. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-272. The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-7722. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. 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-2025-22398). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

WordPress Plugin

Name

Social Streams Plugin

Version

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.1
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 8.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Least privilege violation
CWE: CWE-272 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

07/22/2025 Advisory disclosed
07/22/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
07/23/2025 +1 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wordfence.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-7722 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-7722
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-317258
EUVD: 🔒

Entryinfo

Created: 07/22/2025 17:17
Updated: 07/23/2025 14:30
Changes: 07/22/2025 17:17 (50), 07/23/2025 05:33 (1), 07/23/2025 14:30 (13)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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