CVE-2025-1295
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Templines Elementor Helper Core plugin for WordPress contains a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-1295) affecting all versions up to and including 2.7. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on February 27, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from the plugin allowing arbitrary user meta updates. This security flaw is specifically tied to functionality that becomes exploitable when the BuddyPress plugin is also installed and activated. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating a serious security risk (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to escalate their privileges to Administrator level. This represents a critical security breach as it enables low-privileged users to gain full administrative control over the WordPress installation (NVD).

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