CVE-2025-3610
Published: 06 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3610 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Themeforest (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 19.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Reales WP STPT plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to and including 2.1.2. The flaw stems from missing validation of a user's identity before allowing updates to account details such as passwords and email addresses, and it is tracked under CWE-639 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8.
Authenticated attackers holding subscriber-level access or higher can exploit the issue to modify passwords and email addresses belonging to arbitrary users, including administrators, thereby gaining control of those accounts. The vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2025-3609 to obtain remote code execution as an originally unauthenticated user.
The supplied references point to the vendor's ThemeForest listing and a Wordfence threat-intelligence entry but contain no explicit mitigation guidance or patch details. The associated EPSS score remains flat at 0.0142 with no material increase after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-13394
Vulnerability details
The Reales WP STPT plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details…
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like password. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords and email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account. This can be combined with CVE-2025-3609 to achieve remote code execution as an originally unauthenticated user with no account.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.