CVE-2025-32271 Overview
CVE-2025-32271 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the ablancodev Woocommerce Role Pricing plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all versions of woocommerce-role-pricing from unspecified initial releases through 3.5.6. An attacker can craft a malicious web page that triggers unauthorized state-changing actions when a privileged user visits it. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery.
Critical Impact
Successful exploitation allows attackers to force authenticated WordPress administrators to perform unintended actions on the Woocommerce Role Pricing plugin, potentially altering role-based pricing configurations without consent.
Affected Products
- ablancodev Woocommerce Role Pricing plugin for WordPress
- All versions up to and including 3.5.6
- WordPress sites using role-based pricing configurations via this plugin
Discovery Timeline
- 2025-04-04 - CVE-2025-32271 published to NVD
- 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database
Technical Details for CVE-2025-32271
Vulnerability Analysis
The vulnerability stems from missing or improperly implemented CSRF protection on state-changing endpoints in the Woocommerce Role Pricing plugin. WordPress provides a nonce-based mechanism to prevent CSRF attacks, but the affected plugin does not consistently validate nonces on privileged actions. An attacker who convinces an authenticated administrator to visit a malicious page can trigger requests that the plugin processes as legitimate.
Exploitation requires user interaction, as reflected in the CVSS vector component UI:R. The attacker must lure a logged-in administrator to a crafted page or link. Once loaded, the malicious page issues a forged HTTP request to the target WordPress site, and the browser automatically attaches session cookies.
Impact is limited to integrity, with no direct confidentiality or availability consequences noted. However, unauthorized modification of pricing rules on a WooCommerce store can cause financial loss and disrupt commerce workflows.
Root Cause
The root cause is the absence of anti-CSRF tokens or insufficient origin validation on sensitive plugin actions. WordPress plugins should use wp_nonce_field() and check_admin_referer() or wp_verify_nonce() on every request that modifies server state. The affected releases through 3.5.6 do not enforce this protection on all applicable endpoints.
Attack Vector
The attack vector is Network-based with low complexity and no required privileges on the attacker side. A typical exploitation flow involves the attacker hosting a page containing an auto-submitting HTML form or an image tag pointing to the vulnerable WordPress admin endpoint. When an authenticated administrator visits the page, the browser sends the request with valid session cookies, and the plugin executes the action without verifying user intent. See the Patchstack advisory for further technical context.
Detection Methods for CVE-2025-32271
Indicators of Compromise
- Unexpected changes to role-based pricing rules or plugin configuration in WooCommerce
- HTTP POST requests to Woocommerce Role Pricing endpoints with Referer headers pointing to external, untrusted domains
- WordPress audit log entries showing administrative actions from unusual sessions or browser fingerprints
Detection Strategies
- Inspect web server access logs for cross-origin requests to plugin action URLs missing valid nonce parameters
- Correlate administrator browsing sessions with configuration change events in the WordPress database
- Deploy a web application firewall rule that flags state-changing requests to the plugin lacking a _wpnonce parameter
Monitoring Recommendations
- Enable WordPress activity logging plugins to record all administrative changes with timestamps and source IPs
- Monitor outbound referrers on administrator sessions for suspicious redirects to untrusted third-party sites
- Alert on modifications to WooCommerce pricing configuration outside approved change windows
How to Mitigate CVE-2025-32271
Immediate Actions Required
- Update the Woocommerce Role Pricing plugin to a version above 3.5.6 once the vendor releases a patched build
- Restrict WordPress administrator accounts to dedicated browser profiles that avoid general web browsing
- Enforce short session timeouts and re-authentication for administrative actions on WooCommerce stores
Patch Information
No fixed version is listed in the NVD entry at time of publication. Site administrators should monitor the Patchstack advisory and the plugin's WordPress.org page for release updates addressing this issue.
Workarounds
- Disable or remove the Woocommerce Role Pricing plugin until a patched release is available if role-based pricing is not business critical
- Deploy a web application firewall with CSRF protection rules that require valid Origin and Referer headers on WordPress admin requests
- Require administrators to log out of WordPress before browsing other sites, reducing the window for CSRF exploitation
# Example WAF rule concept for ModSecurity to block cross-origin admin POSTs
SecRule REQUEST_METHOD "@streq POST" \
"chain,phase:1,deny,status:403,id:1003271,msg:'Blocked cross-origin WP admin request'"
SecRule REQUEST_URI "@contains /wp-admin/" "chain"
SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:Referer "!@beginsWith https://your-site.example/"
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