CVE-2025-7718
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 Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their 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 Resideo WordPress plugin fails to validate user identity before allowing email address changes, enabling any authenticated user with Subscriber-level access or higher to modify arbitrary user email addresses (including administrators) and subsequently hijack those accounts via password reset.
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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Verify Resideo plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress Admin > Plugins and look for 'Resideo' in the list of installed plugins, or check the file system at /wp-content/plugins/ for a resideo folderAffected if The Resideo plugin folder exists in the WordPress plugins directory
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Check installed plugin versionIn WordPress Admin > Plugins, find the Resideo plugin and read the version number displayed under the plugin name, or open the main plugin PHP file and look for the 'Version' header in the plugin commentsAffected if The version displayed is below 2.5.5 (e.g., 2.5.4, 2.5.3, etc.)
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Confirm authenticated user access existsIn WordPress Admin > Users, verify if any user accounts exist with the Subscriber role, or check if WordPress user registration is enabled at Settings > General > Membership (Anyone can register)Affected if At least one user with Subscriber-level access exists, or user registration is enabled allowing new subscriptions
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Test email change vulnerability via API or plugin functionUsing a low-privilege account (Subscriber), attempt to change another user's email address through the Resideo plugin's user profile or API endpoint; or inspect the plugin code for email change functions lacking capability checks (look for 'update_user_meta' or 'profile_update' hooks without current_user_can validation)Affected if The email address of another user can be modified without proper authorization verification
Your environment is affected if the Resideo plugin is installed with a version lower than 2.5.5 and any authenticated user with Subscriber-level or higher access exists in 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 to version 2.5.5 or later which implements proper identity validation for email change requests; alternatively remove the plugin until a patch is available.
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