CVE-2025-52825
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 · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Rameez Iqbal Real Estate Manager real-estate-manager allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Real Estate Manager: from n/a through <= 7.3.
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 · moderate confidenceA CSRF vulnerability in the Real Estate Manager WordPress plugin allows attackers to craft malicious requests that authenticated users unknowingly execute, potentially leading to privilege escalation by tricking administrators or privileged users into performing unintended administrative actions.
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
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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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Verify Real Estate Manager plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'Real Estate Manager' or check the file system at wp-content/plugins/ for a real-estate-manager directory. Check plugin version in plugin header or readme.txtAffected if The Real Estate Manager plugin is present and active in the WordPress installation
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Identify the installed plugin versionOpen wp-content/plugins/real-estate-manager/readme.txt and locate the 'Stable tag' entry, or check the plugin header comment in the main PHP file for the version numberAffected if The installed version falls within any affected version range (compare your version to the specific vulnerable versions for this CVE)
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Confirm state-changing operations lack CSRF protectionInspect the plugin's admin action handlers (typically in the main plugin PHP file or admin subfolder). Search for functions handling save/update/delete operations. Check if these functions verify wp_verify_nonce() or check_admin_referer() before processing requestsAffected if State-changing operations (like saving listings, updating settings, or modifying user data) do not validate nonces or CSRF tokens
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Check for missing Origin/Referer validationReview the same plugin action handlers to see if they validate HTTP Origin or Referer headers using $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'] or $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] before processing requestsAffected if The plugin does not validate that requests originate from legitimate WordPress admin pages
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Verify WordPress same-site cookie configurationCheck wp-config.php for the COOKIEPATH definition and verify if the WordPress session cookies have SameSite attributes set. Also check if the site uses HTTPS, as this affects cookie securityAffected if SameSite cookie attributes are not set to 'Strict' or 'Lax', making CSRF attacks more feasible
Your environment is affected if the Real Estate Manager plugin is installed and its state-changing admin operations do not implement nonce validation or Origin/Referer header checks.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (synchronizer token pattern) for all state-changing operations and validate Origin/Referer headers to ensure requests originate from legitimate sources.
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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-2025-52825 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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