CVE-2025-22287: LTL Freight Quotes Plugin Auth Bypass

CVE-2025-22287 Overview

CVE-2025-22287 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability [CWE-862] in the enituretechnology LTL Freight Quotes – FreightQuote Edition plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all plugin versions up to and including 2.3.11. Attackers with low-privilege authenticated access can reach plugin functions that lack proper access control checks. Successful exploitation impacts data integrity and availability at a limited scope. The issue is tracked under Patchstack's WordPress plugin vulnerability database and stems from incorrectly configured access control security levels within plugin endpoints.

Critical Impact
Authenticated users with minimal privileges can invoke plugin functionality that should require higher authorization, enabling unauthorized modification of data or limited service disruption on affected WordPress sites.

Affected Products

enituretechnology LTL Freight Quotes – FreightQuote Edition (ltl-freight-quotes-freightquote-edition)
All versions from initial release through 2.3.11
WordPress installations running the vulnerable plugin

Discovery Timeline

2025-05-19 - CVE-2025-22287 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-22287

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability is a Broken Access Control weakness classified under [CWE-862] Missing Authorization. The plugin exposes functionality without verifying that the requesting user holds the required capability or role. WordPress plugins typically enforce authorization through current_user_can() checks and nonce validation on AJAX or admin-post handlers. When these checks are absent or misconfigured, any authenticated user can invoke restricted actions.

Exploitation requires network access and low-privilege authentication. No user interaction is required, and attack complexity is low. The scope remains unchanged, with limited impact on integrity and availability. Confidentiality is not affected according to the published CVSS vector.

Root Cause

The root cause is incorrectly configured access control security levels within plugin action handlers. Handlers that perform state-changing operations do not validate whether the caller possesses the appropriate capability. This design gap allows subscriber-level or contributor-level accounts to reach administrative or configuration functionality intended for higher-privileged roles.

Attack Vector

An attacker authenticates to a WordPress site with any low-privilege account, then issues crafted HTTP requests to the vulnerable plugin endpoints. Because the endpoints do not enforce capability checks, the plugin processes the requests and performs the requested operations. See the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for endpoint-level details.

No public proof-of-concept exploit is currently listed for this CVE, and it is not present on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The EPSS score is 0.259%.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-22287

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected HTTP POST requests to admin-ajax.php or plugin action endpoints originating from low-privilege user sessions
Modifications to LTL Freight Quotes plugin configuration performed by non-administrator accounts
Anomalous activity logs showing shipping quote configuration changes outside normal administrator workflows

Detection Strategies

Review WordPress access logs for requests targeting ltl-freight-quotes-freightquote-edition action names from users without administrator roles
Deploy a web application firewall rule that inspects requests to plugin endpoints and correlates them with the authenticated user's WordPress role
Enable WordPress audit logging plugins to capture capability-check failures and unexpected option updates

Monitoring Recommendations

Monitor the wp_options table and plugin-specific option keys for unauthorized writes
Alert on privilege-level mismatches where subscribers or contributors interact with admin-scoped AJAX actions
Track plugin version inventory across all WordPress hosts to identify systems still running 2.3.11 or earlier

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-22287

Immediate Actions Required

Update the LTL Freight Quotes – FreightQuote Edition plugin to a version later than 2.3.11 as soon as the vendor publishes a fixed release
Audit all WordPress user accounts and remove or downgrade any unnecessary low-privilege accounts
Restrict plugin administration to trusted administrators and enforce strong authentication on all user accounts

Patch Information

Refer to the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for the current patch status and vendor-supplied fixed version. Apply the vendor update through the WordPress plugin manager once available.

Workarounds

Temporarily deactivate the LTL Freight Quotes – FreightQuote Edition plugin until a fixed version is deployed
Block access to plugin-specific AJAX actions at the web application firewall for non-administrator sessions
Enforce two-factor authentication to reduce the risk of low-privilege account compromise being leveraged for exploitation

bash

# Example WAF rule concept: deny plugin AJAX actions from non-admin cookies
# Adjust to your WAF syntax (ModSecurity, Cloudflare, AWS WAF, etc.)
SecRule REQUEST_URI "@contains /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" \
  "chain,phase:2,deny,status:403,id:1002287,\
   msg:'Block LTL Freight Quotes plugin action for non-admin users'"
  SecRule ARGS:action "@rx ^(ltl_freightquote_|enituretechnology_)" \
    "chain"
    SecRule REQUEST_COOKIES:/wordpress_logged_in_/ "!@rx admin"