Realteo - Real Estate Plugin by Purethemes <= 1.2.8 - Authentication Bypass via 'do_register_user'
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.9
- Affected Plugin
- Realteo
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.8- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
- CVE
CVE-2025-2232
At a glance
CVE-2025-2232 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Realteo WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.8. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Tonn.
Vulnerability Overview
The Realteo - Real Estate Plugin by Purethemes plugin for WordPress, used by the Findeo Theme, is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to insufficient role restrictions in the 'do_register_user' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register an account with the Administrator role.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
Realteo <= 1.2.8 carries this weakness at do_register_user, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.
It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Realteo the fix is 1.2.9: builds <= 1.2.8 are affected, anything from 1.2.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Realteo 1.2.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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