Simple Business Directory Pro < 15.6.9 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 15.6.9
- Affected Plugin
- Simple Business Directory Pro
- Affected Version
< 15.6.9- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
- CVE
CVE-2025-53580
At a glance
CVE-2025-53580 is a critical-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the Simple Business Directory Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 15.6.9. 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 15.6.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2025, reported by João Pedro Soares de Alcântara.
Vulnerability Overview
The Simple Business Directory Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to 15.6.9 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
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-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Remediation
Update to version 15.6.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Simple Business Directory Pro 15.6.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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