Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessSend unauthenticated AJAX request
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ExploitInvoke store-registration action (no nonce/capability check)
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ImpactForce re-registration and overwrite stored shop secret
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The target WordPress site must have the 'Product Feed for Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and 40+ Channels for WooCommerce Merchant' plugin installed and active at a version below 5.3.2. The vulnerable AJAX action that registers the store with the feed service performs no nonce (CSRF) check and no capability check and is exposed to unauthenticated users, so no authentication, no specific non-default setting, and no user interaction are required (consistent with AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). The limiting factors are scope and impact rather than access: exploitation only affects the plugin's stored shop secret / feed re-registration (integrity-only, I:L) and does not grant code execution, data disclosure, or site takeover; the sole precondition beyond network reachability is that the vulnerable plugin version is present and the feed registration feature is in use. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity, integrity-only access-control flaw (CWE-284), and the signals are consistent in pointing to limited real-world urgency rather than an emergency. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N = 5.3) shows remote, low-complexity, unauthenticated exploitation but with only a LOW integrity impact and NO confidentiality or availability impact - the attacker can overwrite the stored shop secret and force re-registration, not take over the site or read data. EPSS is low at 0.17% (5th percentile), and the CVE is NOT on CISA KEV, so there is no evidence of active exploitation; SSVC agrees (Exploitation: none). The counter-signals are that publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan) and SSVC marks the issue Automatable: yes with partial technical impact, meaning opportunistic/mass scanning against WordPress/WooCommerce sites is plausible even though impact per victim is modest. Net: treat as a routine-priority patch (disruption of the Google/Microsoft product-feed integration), not a high-urgency incident. Note the signal tension to resolve operationally: POC availability + automatable does not equal active exploitation, and low EPSS + no KEV reinforce that this is currently a theoretical/opportunistic risk rather than a widespread campaign. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker sends a crafted request to the plugin's unauthenticated AJAX registration action against any vulnerable WooCommerce store, forcing it to re-register with the feed service and overwriting the stored shop secret. Because no nonce or capability check is enforced, no login or user interaction is needed, and publicly available exploit code (WPScan) lowers the bar further. The result is disruption or hijacking of the store's product-feed registration rather than full site compromise. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Unauthenticated visitors to any WordPress site running the 'Product Feed for Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and 40+ Channels for WooCommerce Merchant' plugin below version 5.3.2 can invoke an AJAX action that re-registers the store with the plugin's feed service and overwrites the stored shop secret, because that action performs neither a nonce nor a capability check (CVSS 3.1 5.3, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N). The impact is integrity-only and confined to the plugin's feed registration state - there is no code execution, data disclosure, or site takeover path - and publicly available exploit code exists per the WPScan advisory. Real-world urgency is low: EPSS is 0.17% (5th percentile) and the CISA SSVC assessment records exploitation as 'none', with only the plugin version being a precondition.
RemediationAI
Upgrade the plugin to 5.3.2 or later - the vendor-released fix per the available data is version 5.3.2, the first release above the vulnerable 'before 5.3.2' range, and the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/92b501c0-e237-4dd5-a88a-8472398b1c7e/ should be checked for the definitive patched build. Because the overwritten value is the store's stored shop secret, patching alone does not restore prior state: after upgrading, re-register the store with the feed service and regenerate/rotate the shop secret, then verify that Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and any other configured channels still sync correctly, since stale credentials will silently break feeds. If the plugin cannot be updated immediately, the least disruptive compensating control is to deactivate the plugin until it can be patched - trade-off: product feed synchronisation to all configured channels stops for the duration. A narrower option is a WAF or reverse-proxy rule that rejects unauthenticated POST requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php carrying the plugin's registration action parameter, but this must be tuned carefully because blanket blocking or rate-limiting of admin-ajax.php breaks legitimate front-end AJAX features on many sites, including this plugin's own storefront behaviour. Restricting administrative access to wp-admin and monitoring for unexpected feed re-registration or secret changes provide detection value but are not preventive; note that nonce-based CSRF mitigations are ineffective here because the endpoint is reachable without any session or token. Sites that do not use the plugin's feed registration feature effectively have no exposure and may simply leave the plugin deactivated.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is a WordPress plugin access-control defect (CWE-284, Improper Access Control) in the AJAX handler that registers the store with the plugin's feed service. WordPress exposes plugin AJAX endpoints through wp-admin/admin-ajax.php; handlers hooked to wp_ajax_nopriv_<action> are deliberately reachable by unauthenticated visitors, which makes the absence of two standard guards - check_ajax_referer() for a nonce and current_user_can() for a capability check - directly exploitable by any anonymous request (consistent with PR:N/UI:N). The missing nonce also gives the action a CSRF character, so a logged-in administrator could be induced to trigger it, but authentication is not required at all. The stored 'shop secret' is the credential the plugin uses to authenticate the store against its feed service; overwriting it desynchronises the store's registration, which is an integrity violation of limited scope (I:L) rather than a confidentiality or availability compromise. The provided CPE is a vendor 'unknown' string with wildcard versioning, so exact version scoping must be taken from the EUVD range (0 through versions below 5.3.2) rather than from CPE matching. SSVC flags the issue as Automatable: yes and Technical Impact: partial - a trivially scriptable, low-skill request against many sites, but with bounded per-site consequence.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated remote AJAX action with no nonce/capability check gives AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N; overwriting the shop secret is a limited integrity impact (I:L) with no C or A effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
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4DescriptionCVE.org
The Product Feed for Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and 40+ Channels for WooCommerce Merchant WordPress plugin before 5.3.2 does not perform a nonce or capability check on the AJAX action that registers the store with its feed service and exposes it to unauthenticated users, so any visitor can force the store to re-register and overwrite the Product Feed for Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and 40+ Channels for WooCommerce Merchant WordPress plugin before 5.3.2's stored shop secret.
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