CVE-2025-3417

HIGH

Embedder plugin <1.3.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Embedder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the ajax_set_global_option() function in versions 1.3 to 1.3.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 25.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (1)
stringfold/Embedder 1.3 - 1.3.5
Published Apr 10, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026