Vulnerability · Published Mar 29, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-2266Checkout Mestres do WP for WooCommerce 8.6.5 - 8.7.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity missing authorization in Checkout Mestres do WP for WooCommerce from mestresdowp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| mestresdowp | Checkout Mestres do WP for WooCommerce | 8.6.5 – through 8.7.5 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H