CVE-2025-7722

Social Streams <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

2025-07-22 14:03

Strategic Overview

Status: Unpatched
Affected Plugin: Social Streams
Affected Version: <= 1.0.1
CVSS: 8.8High
Weakness type: CWE-272 · Least Privilege Violation
CVE: CVE-2025-7722

At a glance

CVE-2025-7722 is a high-severity Least Privilege Violation vulnerability in the Social Streams WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.1. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed July 2025, reported by Thanh Nam Tran.

Vulnerability Overview

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.

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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-272: Least Privilege Violation

The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

No patched version is recorded yet, so there is nothing to update to; WordSec's vulnerability alerts flag this record the moment that changes.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-7722 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3f01b88-6f93-4ee8-8d59-9165ebcd4dd1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7722

CVSS Vector

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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