UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages <= 3.5.07 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Remote Code Execution
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.5.08
- Affected Version
<= 3.5.07- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
- CVE
CVE-2025-3053
At a glance
CVE-2025-3053 is a high-severity Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in the UiPress lite WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.5.07. 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. The issue is fixed in version 3.5.08; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2025, reported by vulnmode2.
Vulnerability Overview
The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.07 via the uip_process_form_input() function. This is due to the function taking user supplied inputs to execute arbitrary functions with arbitrary data, and does not have any sort of capability check. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary code on the server.
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-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
UiPress lite <= 3.5.07 carries this weakness at uip_process_form_input(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Code injection means input from a request reaches a language construct that evaluates code, so the attacker's text is executed rather than treated as data.
The injected code runs with the web server's privileges, giving the attacker the same access to the database and filesystem as WordPress itself. For UiPress lite the fix is 3.5.08: builds <= 3.5.07 are affected, anything from 3.5.08 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.5.08, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: UiPress lite 3.5.08 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
Related records
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