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CVE-2025-27270

WordPress Residential Address Detection Plugin <= 2.5.4 - Arbitrary Option Update to Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Severity Score

9.8
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

Attend
*SSVC
Descriptions

Missing Authorization vulnerability in NotFound Residential Address Detection allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Residential Address Detection: from n/a through 2.5.4.

The Residential Address Detection plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

*Credits: LVT-tholv2k (Patchstack Alliance)
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:Attend
Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Tech. Impact
Total
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2025-02-21 CVE Reserved
  • 2025-02-21 CVE Published
  • 2025-03-03 CVE Updated
  • 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization
CAPEC
  • CAPEC-233: Privilege Escalation
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Residential Address Detection
Search vendor "Residential Address Detection"
 Residential Address Detection
Search vendor "Residential Address Detection" for product "Residential Address Detection"
 >= 0.0.0 <= 2.5.4
Search vendor "Residential Address Detection" for product "Residential Address Detection" and version " >= 0.0.0 <= 2.5.4"
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Affected