CVE-2025-22715: WP Attractive Donations Auth Bypass Flaw

CVE-2025-22715 Overview

CVE-2025-22715 is a Missing Authorization vulnerability affecting the WP Attractive Donations System plugin for WordPress. This plugin, which provides Easy Stripe & Paypal donation functionality, contains incorrectly configured access control security levels that can be exploited by authenticated attackers to perform unauthorized actions, including arbitrary content deletion.

Critical Impact

Authenticated attackers with low privileges can exploit missing authorization checks to delete arbitrary content on affected WordPress sites, potentially causing significant data loss and website disruption.

Affected Products

• WP Attractive Donations System - Easy Stripe & Paypal donations plugin version 1.25 and earlier
• WordPress installations using the WP_AttractiveDonationsSystem plugin

Discovery Timeline

• 2026-01-08 - CVE-2025-22715 published to NVD
• 2026-01-08 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-22715

Vulnerability Analysis

This vulnerability falls under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), where the WP Attractive Donations System plugin fails to implement proper authorization checks on sensitive functionality. The vulnerability allows authenticated users with minimal privileges to exploit incorrectly configured access control mechanisms, bypassing intended security restrictions.

The attack requires network access and low-privilege authentication, but does not require any user interaction. Successful exploitation results in high impact to both confidentiality and integrity of the affected system, enabling attackers to access and delete content they should not be authorized to modify.

Root Cause

The root cause of this vulnerability is the absence of proper capability checks within the plugin's code paths that handle content deletion operations. The plugin developers failed to implement WordPress's built-in authorization mechanisms (such as current_user_can() checks) before executing privileged operations. This allows any authenticated user, regardless of their assigned role, to invoke these functions and delete arbitrary content from the WordPress database.

Attack Vector

The attack vector is network-based, requiring an authenticated session with any privilege level on the target WordPress site. An attacker would:

1. Authenticate to the WordPress site with any valid user account (subscriber, contributor, etc.)
2. Craft requests to the plugin's vulnerable endpoints that handle content deletion
3. Submit these requests directly to bypass the intended authorization flow
4. Successfully delete arbitrary content without proper authorization checks being enforced

The vulnerability does not require complex exploitation techniques or specific timing, as the authorization checks are simply missing rather than improperly implemented.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-22715

Indicators of Compromise

• Unexpected content deletions in WordPress posts, pages, or donation records
• Audit logs showing low-privilege users accessing administrative plugin functions
• Database modification events originating from non-administrative user sessions
• Unusual API or AJAX requests to WP Attractive Donations System endpoints from authenticated users

Detection Strategies

• Monitor WordPress activity logs for unauthorized content deletion events
• Review web server access logs for suspicious requests to the plugin's action handlers
• Implement WordPress security plugins that log capability checks and authorization failures
• Set up file integrity monitoring to detect unexpected changes to the wp-content directory

Monitoring Recommendations

• Enable detailed WordPress audit logging to track all content modification events
• Configure alerts for content deletion actions performed by non-administrator users
• Monitor database query logs for DELETE operations associated with the donations plugin
• Implement real-time security monitoring through SentinelOne Singularity or similar endpoint protection

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-22715

Immediate Actions Required

• Review and audit all user accounts on affected WordPress installations
• Temporarily disable the WP Attractive Donations System plugin if not critical to operations
• Restrict user registration and minimize authenticated users until patched
• Implement additional access controls at the web server level
• Back up all donation data and WordPress content immediately

Patch Information

No official patch information has been released at the time of publication. Site administrators should monitor the Patchstack Vulnerability Database Entry for updates and vendor announcements regarding a security fix. Consider upgrading to a version higher than 1.25 once a patched release becomes available.

Workarounds

• Disable the WP Attractive Donations System plugin until a patch is available
• Restrict WordPress user registrations to trusted administrators only
• Implement web application firewall (WAF) rules to block suspicious requests to the plugin
• Add custom capability checks in a must-use plugin to intercept vulnerable endpoints
• Consider switching to an alternative donations plugin that has been security audited

# Disable the vulnerable plugin via WP-CLI
wp plugin deactivate wp-attractive-donations-system --path=/var/www/html

# Verify plugin is disabled
wp plugin list --path=/var/www/html | grep attractive

# Restrict user capabilities (consider implementing in functions.php or mu-plugin)
# Review and audit existing user accounts
wp user list --role=subscriber --path=/var/www/html