CVE-2025-11815

UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages <= 3.5.08 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Update

2025-11-20 19:17
Rafshanzani Suhada

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.5.09
Affected Plugin
UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
Affected Version
<= 3.5.08
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
CVE
CVE-2025-11815
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At a glance

CVE-2025-11815 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the UiPress lite WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.5.08. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 3.5.09; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Rafshanzani Suhada.

Vulnerability Overview

The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the uip_save_site_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.08. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary plugin settings. Other AJAX actions are also affected.

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.

CWE-285: Improper Authorization

UiPress lite <= 3.5.08 carries this weakness at uip_save_site_option(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.

A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For UiPress lite the fix is 3.5.09: builds <= 3.5.08 are affected, anything from 3.5.09 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.5.09, 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: UiPress lite 3.5.09 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11815https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f8d7397-0201-4194-8604-057f905ef10bhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11815

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