{"id":66791,"date":"2025-07-23T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-7722-wordpress-social-streams-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:27:30","slug":"cve-2025-7722-wordpress-social-streams-privilege-escalation-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-7722-wordpress-social-streams-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-7722 &#8211; WordPress Social Streams Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-7722<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> July 23, 2025, 3:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 44\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Social Streams plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user&#8217;s identity prior to updating their user meta information in the update_user_meta() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change their user type to that of an administrator.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 8.8 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-7722 Published : July 23, 2025, 3:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 44\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Social Streams plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user&#8217;s identity prior to updating their user meta information &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}