Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-66157 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-66157 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-66157?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.4, published 31 December 2025.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Merkulove Sliper for Elementor through 1.0.10.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-66157?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-66157 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-66157?
- Check whether you run Merkulove Sliper for Elementor at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a broken access control flaw in the Sliper for Elementor WordPress plugin (versions <= 1.0.10) that fails to properly enforce authorization checks. An attacker with a Subscriber account (the lowest privilege level on WordPress) can exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels to access or modify restricted pages and functionality. No user interaction is required beyond having a basic user account. The attack is network-accessible as it targets a web plugin. As of the publication date, no official patch has been released.
Affected products
- merkulove Sliper for Elementor through 1.0.10
Timeline
- 2025-11-10: disclosed: Reported by Phat RiO
- 2025-12-31: advisory: Published by Patchstack