CVE-2025-3610
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe 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 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Reales WP STPT WordPress plugin fails to validate user identity before allowing password and email updates, enabling any authenticated user with subscriber-level access to modify arbitrary user accounts including administrators. This privilege escalation allows attackers to take over admin accounts and potentially achieve remote code execution when chained with CVE-2025-3609.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Reales WP STPT plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress admin > Plugins and locate 'Reales WP STPT' in the list of installed pluginsAffected if The plugin appears in the installed plugins list
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Check installed plugin versionIn the Plugins list, click on the plugin name or view the plugin files to find the version number in the plugin header or readme.txtAffected if The installed version is lower than 2.1.3 or the version cannot be determined
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Identify subscriber-level user accountsGo to WordPress admin > Users and filter or search for users with the 'Subscriber' roleAffected if There are any subscriber accounts present on the site (these accounts can exploit the vulnerability)
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Review admin account email and password changesCheck admin user account details for any unexpected email address modifications; also review server access logs or security plugins for password reset or email change API calls originating from subscriber-level sessionsAffected if Admin account email addresses were changed or password changes occurred without corresponding admin-level authentication
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Audit user account creation timestampsExamine the user list for newly created administrator or editor accounts created around the time the plugin was activeAffected if Unexpected high-privilege accounts exist that were created after the plugin was installed
A user is affected if the Reales WP STPT plugin is installed with a version before 2.1.3 and any subscriber-level user account exists on the WordPress site
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the plugin to version 2.1.3 or later which contains the security fix. If no patched version is available, disable the plugin immediately and review user accounts for unauthorized changes.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-3610 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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