Ben Ritner Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer Plugin up to 1.5.16 on WordPress privileges assignment

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Ben Ritner Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer Plugin up to 1.5.16 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes privileges assignment. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-54697. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Ben Ritner Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer Plugin up to 1.5.16 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges assignment vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-266. A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular 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:

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Ben Ritner - Kadence WP Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer: from n/a through 1.5.16.

The weakness was published by Denver Jackson. The advisory is shared at patchstack.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-54697 since 07/28/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/14/2025). 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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• E-Commerce Management Software

Vendor

• Ben Ritner

Name

• Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer Plugin

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.5.13
• 1.5.14
• 1.5.15
• 1.5.16

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