# CVE-2025-27007: SureTriggers - Privilege Escalation

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-27007 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-27007

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Brainstorm Force SureTriggers
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment)
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Brainstorm Force SureTriggers allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects SureTriggers: from n/a through 1.0.82.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-27007](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-27007) is a critical vulnerability in the Brainstorm Force SureTriggers plugin for WordPress that allows attackers to escalate privileges by abusing certain API endpoints.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 11th of June 2025.

Insights from the CrowdSec network reveal that the attackers trying to exploit CVE-2025-27007 are composed of a fairly even mix of opportunistic and targeted actors. Some attackers employ preliminary reconnaissance, while others use indiscriminate scanning.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-27007 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-27007 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Observed exploitation attempts are primarily directed at URLs containing `/wp-json/sure-triggers/v1/connection/create-wp-connection` or `/wp-json/sure-triggers/v1/automation/action`.

## Timeline

- 2025-05-01: CVE Published. CVE-2025-27007 is published to NVD.
- 2025-06-11: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-27007 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-06-16: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-27007 for the first time.

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/suretriggers/vulnerability/wordpress-suretriggers-1-0-82-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://patchstack.com/articles/additional-critical-ottokit-formerly-suretriggers-vulnerability-patched?_s_id=cve
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-27007.yaml

## Live exploitation data

The [Live Exploit Tracker page](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-27007) follows observed exploitation activity for CVE-2025-27007. [Request an API key](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/request-api-key) for full access to its exploitation timeline, attacking IP addresses and blocklists.