Privilege escalation in Smartdatasoft Reveal Listing
CVE-2025-6994
The Reveal Listing plugin by smartdatasoft for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 3.3. This is due to the plugin allowing users who are registering new accounts to set their own role or by supplying 'listing_user_role' field. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain elevated privileges by creating an account with the administrator role.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
EPSS: 0.004 (32.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Smartdatasoft Reveal Listing — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-6994?
- CVE-2025-6994 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Smartdatasoft Reveal Listing, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-08-06.
- How severe is CVE-2025-6994?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2025-6994 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.