CVE-2025-14361: WooCommerce Envato Affiliates Auth Bypass

CVE-2025-14361 Overview

CVE-2025-14361 is a missing authorization vulnerability in the AA-Team Woocommerce Envato Affiliates plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all versions up to and including 1.2.1. The plugin fails to enforce access control list (ACL) checks on sensitive functionality, allowing low-privileged authenticated users to access settings-change operations restricted to administrators.

The vulnerability maps to [CWE-862] (Missing Authorization). An attacker with low-privilege credentials can alter plugin configuration over the network without user interaction.

Critical Impact

Authenticated attackers can modify Woocommerce Envato Affiliates plugin settings, compromising integrity of affiliate configuration on the WordPress site.

Affected Products

• AA-Team Woocommerce Envato Affiliates plugin for WordPress
• All versions from initial release through 1.2.1
• WordPress sites running the vulnerable wooenvato plugin

Discovery Timeline

• 2026-05-26 - CVE-2025-14361 published to NVD
• 2026-05-27 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-14361

Vulnerability Analysis

The Woocommerce Envato Affiliates plugin exposes settings-change functionality without verifying that the requesting user holds appropriate capabilities. WordPress plugins typically guard administrative actions using current_user_can() checks combined with nonce verification. This plugin omits the capability check on at least one settings handler, leaving the endpoint reachable by any authenticated user.

Low-privileged accounts such as Subscribers or Customers can submit crafted requests to the affected handler. The plugin then accepts and persists configuration changes as if the request originated from an administrator. The vulnerability does not require social engineering or user interaction to exploit.

Review the Patchstack WooCommerce Plugin Vulnerability advisory for additional technical context.

Root Cause

The root cause is broken access control on a privileged plugin action handler. The code path that processes settings updates does not invoke a capability check such as current_user_can('manage_options'). Authorization is effectively absent, and authentication alone grants access to functionality that should be limited to administrators.

Attack Vector

The attack vector is network-based and requires low privileges. An attacker authenticates to the WordPress site using any valid account, including self-registered Subscriber accounts on sites with open registration. The attacker then issues an HTTP request to the unprotected plugin endpoint to modify affiliate settings. No administrator interaction is needed.

No verified public exploit code is available. The vulnerability mechanism is described in the linked Patchstack advisory.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-14361

Indicators of Compromise

• Unexpected modifications to Woocommerce Envato Affiliates plugin settings in the wp_options table
• HTTP POST requests to plugin admin-ajax or settings handlers originating from non-administrator session cookies
• Audit log entries showing settings changes attributed to Subscriber, Customer, or Contributor accounts

Detection Strategies

• Inspect WordPress access logs for requests to plugin-specific endpoints under /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php or /wp-admin/admin-post.php containing wooenvato action parameters from low-privileged users
• Compare plugin option values against a known-good baseline to identify unauthorized configuration drift
• Enable WordPress activity logging plugins to capture user role context for every settings change

Monitoring Recommendations

• Monitor authentication events for newly registered low-privilege accounts followed immediately by requests to plugin admin endpoints
• Alert on changes to Envato affiliate API keys, redirect URLs, or referral identifiers stored by the plugin
• Track outbound traffic patterns to detect redirection of affiliate links to attacker-controlled destinations

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-14361

Immediate Actions Required

• Disable the Woocommerce Envato Affiliates plugin until a patched version is installed
• Audit all WordPress user accounts and remove unused or unrecognized low-privilege accounts
• Disable open user registration if it is not required for site operation
• Review affiliate plugin settings for unauthorized modifications and restore known-good values

Patch Information

At the time of publication, no fixed version is identified in the NVD record. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.2.1. Monitor the Patchstack advisory and the vendor's plugin page for a security update and apply it as soon as it becomes available.

Workarounds

• Restrict access to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php and /wp-admin/admin-post.php at the web application firewall (WAF) layer for non-administrator users where feasible
• Apply virtual patching rules to block requests carrying wooenvato action parameters from sessions lacking the administrator role
• Remove the plugin entirely if affiliate functionality is not actively used

# Configuration example: disable the vulnerable plugin via WP-CLI
wp plugin deactivate wooenvato
wp plugin delete wooenvato