CVE-2025-0180

Critical

Published: 11 February 2025

Published

11 February 2025

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0033 55.6th percentile

Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-0180 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Themeforest (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 44.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-2 (Account Management) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

Enforces least privilege by ensuring newly registered users cannot be assigned administrator privileges, directly mitigating the user meta update vulnerability during profile registration.

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

prevent

Requires enforcement of approved authorizations on user meta updates, preventing unauthenticated attackers from escalating privileges via unrestricted registration fields.

AC-2 Account Management good match

prevent

Manages account creation and privilege assignment processes to restrict administrator roles during registration, addressing the plugin's improper user meta handling.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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Why these techniques?

Unauthenticated network exploitation of public-facing WordPress plugin to modify user meta and gain administrator privileges.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

The WP Foodbakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting what user meta can be updated during profile registration. This makes it…

possible for unauthenticated attackers to register on the site as an administrator.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-0180 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the WP Foodbakery plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 4.7. The flaw stems from the plugin not properly restricting what user meta can be updated during profile registration, published on 2025-02-11 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and mapped to CWE-269.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By registering a new profile, they can modify user meta to gain administrator privileges, potentially achieving full site compromise including high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Advisories provide further details on the issue, including the Wordfence threat intelligence report at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7140a6e-a528-428e-850e-5e4a481c5d7d?source=cve and the plugin listing on ThemeForest at https://themeforest.net/item/food-bakery-restaurant-bakery-responsive-wordpress-theme/18970331.