CVE-2025-4103

Published: May 31, 2025Modified: Jun 2, 2025

8.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The WP-GeoMeta plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the wp_ajax_wpgm_start_geojson_import() function in versions 0.3.4 to 0.3.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Related CWEs

CWE-285

Improper Authorization

The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-geometa/tags/0.3.4/lib/wp-geometa-dash.php#L896

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-geometa/#developers

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/43039f2a-b3f9-4836-8b55-e8a091b1a102?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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