WPshop Plugin up to 2.6.0 on WordPress update privileges management

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in WPshop Plugin up to 2.6.0 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function update. This manipulation causes Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-3852. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability has been found in WPshop Plugin up to 2.6.0 on WordPress and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function update. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WPshop 2 – E-Commerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions 2.0.0 to 2.6.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email & password through the update() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-3852 since 04/21/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/07/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WPshop Plugin

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6.0

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