CVE-2025-1653: Stylemixthemes Ulisting

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This is due to the stm_listing_profile_edit AJAX action not having enough restriction on the user meta that can be updated. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Affected products

• Stylemixthemes Ulisting: up to and including 2.1.7

Published 2025-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.