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CVE-2025-3418: wordpress wpc-admin-columns Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighDeferred
Published 12-04-2025Last modified 14-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-3418 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in wordpress wpc-admin-columns. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 2.1.1.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 12-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The WPC Admin Columns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 2.0.6 to 2.1.0. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting user meta values that can be updated through the ajax_edit_save() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their role to that of an administrator.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.40% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.41%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress1 product
  • wpc-admin-columns≥ 2.0.6, ≤ 2.1.0 (fixed in 2.1.1)
Wpclever1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

3 links