Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme <= 3.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery and API Key Settings Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.6.1
- Affected Theme
- Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 3.6- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-1285
At a glance
CVE-2025-1285 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 3.6. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.6.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.
Vulnerability Overview
The Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the delete_api_key and save_api_key AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to issue requests to internal services and update API key details.
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.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme <= 3.6 takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme the fix is 3.6.1: builds <= 3.6 are affected, anything from 3.6.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.6.1, 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: Resido - Real Estate WordPress Theme 3.6.1 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
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