CVE-2025-48150 Overview
CVE-2025-48150 is a missing authorization vulnerability in the sminozzi Real Estate Property 2024 Create Your Own Fields and Search Bar WP Plugin (real-estate-right-now) for WordPress. The flaw affects all plugin versions up to and including 4.48. Authenticated attackers with low privileges can exploit incorrectly configured access control checks to perform actions restricted to higher-privileged users. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-862: Missing Authorization and was published to the National Vulnerability Database on July 16, 2025.
Critical Impact
Authenticated users with minimal privileges can bypass access control checks and modify plugin data, undermining the integrity of real estate listings and plugin configuration.
Affected Products
- sminozzi Real Estate Property 2024 Create Your Own Fields and Search Bar WP Plugin
- Plugin slug: real-estate-right-now
- All versions from n/a through 4.48
Discovery Timeline
- 2025-07-16 - CVE CVE-2025-48150 published to NVD
- 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database
Technical Details for CVE-2025-48150
Vulnerability Analysis
The real-estate-right-now plugin exposes plugin actions without verifying that the requesting user holds the required WordPress capability. Because capability checks are absent or incomplete, any authenticated user, including subscribers, can invoke privileged functionality. The vulnerability falls under broken access control and is categorized as CWE-862.
Exploitation requires network access to the WordPress site and an authenticated session with low privileges. No user interaction is required, and successful exploitation impacts data integrity within the plugin's scope. Confidentiality and availability are not directly affected, but tampering with listing data can distort search results and business logic on real estate sites.
Root Cause
The root cause is the omission of current_user_can() capability checks and, likely, missing nonce verification on plugin request handlers. Access decisions rely solely on authentication rather than fine-grained authorization, which allows any logged-in role to trigger administrative operations exposed by the plugin.
Attack Vector
An attacker registers or compromises a low-privilege WordPress account on a site running the vulnerable plugin. The attacker then issues crafted HTTP requests to the plugin's action endpoints. Because the endpoints skip authorization checks, the requests execute with elevated effect, allowing the attacker to alter plugin-managed data such as custom fields, listings, or search bar configurations.
See the Patchstack WordPress Vulnerability Report for technical details on the affected handlers.
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Indicators of Compromise
- Unexpected POST requests to plugin endpoints under /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php or /wp-admin/admin-post.php originating from subscriber-level accounts.
- Modifications to real estate listings, custom fields, or search bar settings that do not correlate with administrator activity.
- New or altered plugin records in the WordPress database attributed to non-administrator user IDs.
Detection Strategies
- Review WordPress access logs for authenticated requests targeting real-estate-right-now action names issued by low-privilege roles.
- Correlate plugin option changes in the wp_options and plugin-specific tables against user role and expected admin activity.
- Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule to flag requests to plugin endpoints missing valid administrator nonces.
Monitoring Recommendations
- Enable WordPress audit logging to capture role, IP, and request payload for plugin action calls.
- Alert on newly created subscriber accounts followed by activity against plugin AJAX endpoints within a short interval.
- Track version drift on the real-estate-right-now plugin to confirm rapid patch adoption across managed sites.
How to Mitigate CVE-2025-48150
Immediate Actions Required
- Update the Real Estate Property 2024 plugin to a version later than 4.48 once the vendor releases a fix.
- Restrict new user registration or set the default role to the lowest privilege until a patched version is deployed.
- Audit existing WordPress accounts and remove unused or suspicious low-privilege users.
Patch Information
At the time of publication, the Patchstack advisory confirms the vulnerability is present in versions up to and including 4.48. Site administrators should monitor the plugin's WordPress.org page and Patchstack for a fixed release and apply it as soon as available.
Workarounds
- Deactivate and remove the real-estate-right-now plugin until a patched version is published if the plugin is not business-critical.
- Apply WAF virtual patching rules that require administrator role and valid nonce for requests targeting plugin action handlers.
- Temporarily disable public user registration by unchecking Settings → General → Membership in WordPress.
# Disable public registration and enforce lowest default role via wp-cli
wp option update users_can_register 0
wp option update default_role subscriber
# Deactivate the vulnerable plugin until a fix is available
wp plugin deactivate real-estate-right-now
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