Vulnerability · Published Jan 14, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-15475PayHere Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce <= 2.3.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Status Modification
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in PayHere Payment Gateway from payhere. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The PayHere Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improper validation logic in the check_payhere_response function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the status of pending WooCommerce orders to paid/completed/on hold.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| payhere | PayHere Payment Gateway | 0 – through 2.3.9 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0c92241-0bef-4f87-8478-4d805435f09d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payhere-payment-gateway/tags/2.3.9/gateway/class-wcgatewaypayhere.php#L709
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3440771%40payhere-payment-gateway&new=3440771%40payhere-payment-gateway&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file10