UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages: A security weakness
UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
- Plugin slug
uipress-lite- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 21, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-285 — Improper Authorization
This CVE was published Nov 21, 2025 and is one of 7 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the uip_save_site_option() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.08. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary plugin settings. Other AJAX actions are also affected.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N