CVE-2026-14562: WordPress Teddy Bear Plugin Disclosure Flaw

CVE-2026-14562 Overview

CVE-2026-14562 is an information disclosure vulnerability in the Teddy Bear Customize Addon WordPress plugin through version 1.0.5. The plugin fails to perform authorization or ownership checks before returning WooCommerce order metadata and URLs of customer-uploaded attachments. Unauthenticated attackers can retrieve other customers' order details and attachment data over the network. The issue is classified as [CWE-200] Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor. No authentication or user interaction is required to trigger the disclosure.

Critical Impact

Unauthenticated remote attackers can enumerate and disclose WooCommerce order metadata and customer-uploaded attachment URLs belonging to other customers.

Affected Products

• Teddy Bear Customize Addon WordPress plugin versions up to and including 1.0.5
• WordPress sites running WooCommerce with the affected plugin enabled
• Any store storing customer-uploaded attachments through this plugin

Discovery Timeline

• 2026-09-11 - CVE-2026-14562 published to the National Vulnerability Database
• 2026-09-11 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2026-14562

Vulnerability Analysis

The Teddy Bear Customize Addon plugin exposes endpoints that return WooCommerce order metadata and attachment URLs. These endpoints do not validate that the requesting user owns the referenced order or attachment. An attacker can iterate over order identifiers and retrieve records belonging to any customer.

The disclosed data may include order metadata fields and direct URLs pointing to files that customers uploaded during checkout or product customization. Because attachment URLs are returned directly, an attacker who obtains the URL can download the file without further authentication if the storage location is not otherwise protected.

The vulnerability impacts confidentiality only. Integrity and availability of the WooCommerce store are not affected by this specific flaw.

Root Cause

The plugin's request handlers omit authorization and ownership checks before serving order metadata and attachment references. WordPress capability checks such as current_user_can() and WooCommerce ownership validation are not applied to the affected handlers. This is a broken access control pattern falling under [CWE-200].

Attack Vector

Exploitation occurs over the network against the public-facing WordPress site. The attacker sends crafted requests to the plugin's endpoints, supplying order identifiers to enumerate records. No credentials, session, or user interaction are required. Refer to the WPScan Vulnerability Advisory for endpoint-specific technical details.

No verified public exploit code is available at this time.

Detection Methods for CVE-2026-14562

Indicators of Compromise

• Unauthenticated HTTP requests to admin-ajax.php or plugin REST routes containing order identifier parameters from unfamiliar source IPs
• Sequential or enumerated order ID values in request logs, indicating scraping activity
• Outbound access patterns to /wp-content/uploads/ paths correlated with prior enumeration requests

Detection Strategies

• Inspect web server access logs for repeated requests targeting Teddy Bear Customize Addon endpoints with varying numeric parameters
• Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule to flag unauthenticated requests referencing WooCommerce order identifiers
• Correlate anonymous requests for order metadata with subsequent downloads from the wp-content/uploads directory

Monitoring Recommendations

• Enable WordPress and WooCommerce audit logging to capture requests to plugin AJAX and REST endpoints
• Monitor for spikes in requests to plugin-specific endpoints and high request volumes from a single client
• Alert on anonymous access to attachment URLs that reference customer-uploaded files

How to Mitigate CVE-2026-14562

Immediate Actions Required

• Deactivate the Teddy Bear Customize Addon plugin until a patched version is available
• Review WooCommerce order and attachment access logs for evidence of enumeration since plugin installation
• Notify affected customers if disclosure of order data or uploaded attachments is confirmed

Patch Information

At the time of publication no fixed version has been listed in the referenced advisory. Monitor the WPScan Vulnerability Advisory and the plugin's WordPress.org listing for an updated release beyond 1.0.5.

Workarounds

• Remove or disable the plugin on production sites until a fix is published
• Restrict access to plugin endpoints via .htaccess, Nginx rules, or a WAF policy that requires authenticated sessions
• Move customer-uploaded attachments outside the public web root and serve them through an authenticated handler that verifies order ownership

# Example: block unauthenticated access to the plugin's AJAX actions via Nginx
location = /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php {
    if ($arg_action ~* "teddy_bear_customize") {
        return 403;
    }
}