CVE-2025-3053: UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages <= 3.5.07 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Remote Code Execution
Description
The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.07 via the uip_process_form_input() function. This is due to the function taking user supplied inputs to execute arbitrary functions with arbitrary data, and does not have any sort of capability check. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary code on the server.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-3053
CVSS Base Severity: HIGH
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products
Vendor: admintwentytwenty
Product: UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.29% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 52.11% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-06-06 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3053https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6717adb0-27bc-4cd4-8c34-bea59bc0e016?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3292552/uipress-lite/trunk/admin/core/ajax-functions.php