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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2025-04-16 | |
| Rule Name: | Checkout Mestres do WP for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2025-2266) | |
| Severity: | High | |
| CVE ID: | CVE-2025-2266 | |
| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | The Checkout Mestres do WP for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the cwmpUpdateOptions() function in versions 8.6.5 to 8.7.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can abtain more privileges which he is not entitled to by exloiting the vulnerability, such as executing arbitrary code, deleting files, viewing sensitive information, changing configurations. | |
| Affected OS: | Windows, Linux, Others | |
| Reference: | https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/checkout-mestres-wp/trunk/backend/core/base/ajax.php#L31 https://wordpress.org/plugins/checkout-mestres-wp/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9834fd5b-8445-4c6f-95f9-f0df785c65f8?source=cve |
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| Please refer to announcements or patches release by the vendor: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9834fd5b-8445-4c6f-95f9-f0df785c65f8 |