WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2025-2168 Analyzed

Ultimate Store Kit: Cross-site request forgery

Ultimate Store Kit is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Ultimate Store Kit
Plugin slug
ultimate-store-kit
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
May 01, 2025
Weakness
CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

This CVE was published May 01, 2025 and is one of 14 known issues for this plugin.

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Ultimate Store Kit to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Technical description

The Ultimate Store Kit Elementor Addons, Woocommerce Builder, EDD Builder, Elementor Store Builder, Product Grid, Product Table, Woocommerce Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the dismiss() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to set arbitrary user meta values to `1` which can be leveraged to lock and administrator out of their site via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources