CVE-2025-5288

REST API | Custom API Generator For Cross Platform And Import Export In WP 1.0.0 - 2.0.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via process_handler Function

9.8 CriticalPublic exploit

The REST API | Custom API Generator For Cross Platform And Import Export In WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the process_handler() function in versions 1.0.0 to 2.0.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to POST an arbitrary import_api URL, import specially crafted JSON, and thereby create a new user with full Administrator privileges.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Exploit likelihood

0.66%Up 0.6 points since Jun 13, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 9.8

REST API | Custom API Generator For Cross Platform And Import Export In WP 1.0.0 - 2.0.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via process_handler Function

Record: CVE-2025-5288
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-18240 9.8

Record: EUVD-2025-18240
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hqr5-32x6-7hw9 9.8

The REST API | Custom API Generator For Cross Platform And Import Export In WP plugin for...

Record: GHSA-hqr5-32x6-7hw9
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 9.8

Record: CVE-2025-5288
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-862
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

weboccults rest api | custom api generator for cross platform and import export in wp

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
Source	Link	Date
PoC in GitHub	Nxploited/CVE-2025-5288	2025-06-12

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, PoC in GitHub

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-5288 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Weboccults Rest Api | Custom Api Generator For Cross Platform And Import Export In Wp, published June 13, 2025. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.66%, the 51st percentile. No source names a fixed version.