CVE-2025-27270
Residential Address Detection <= 2.5.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update
criticalMissing Authorization
9.8
CVSS Score
9.8
CVSS Score
critical
Severity
2.5.5
Patched in
11d
Time to patch
Description
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.
CVSS Vector Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HAttack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Technical Details
Affected versions
<=2.5.4PublishedFebruary 21, 2025
Last updatedMarch 3, 2025
Affected pluginresidential-address-detection
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