Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify site running vulnerable Swish plugin
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ExploitSend crafted unauthenticated HTTP request
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ExecutionReach endpoint missing authorization check
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ImpactRead or modify restricted plugin data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires the target WordPress site to have the BjornTech Swish for WooCommerce plugin (woo-swish-e-commerce) installed and active at a version up to and including 3.7.8. Per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), no authentication, no special privileges, and no user interaction are required - exploitation works remotely against the affected plugin's default state by reaching an endpoint that performs no authorization check. The main limiting factor is footprint: this is a region-specific Swish (Swedish mobile payment) integration for WooCommerce, so only WooCommerce stores that have installed this particular plugin and not yet updated past 3.7.8 are exposed; impact is bounded to the Low-confidentiality/Low-integrity functionality the missing check protects, not full site takeover. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) Missing Authorization / Broken Access Control flaw (CWE-862) in the BjornTech Swish for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, reported by Patchstack. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) indicates network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated exploitation requiring no user interaction, with only Low confidentiality and Low integrity impact and no availability impact - consistent with an access-control gap that exposes or lets attackers manipulate a limited subset of plugin functionality or data rather than enabling full compromise. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC are present in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization; the signals are therefore not conflicting but simply thin - severity rests entirely on the vendor-assigned CVSS. The partial C/I impact (not High) tempers real-world urgency: this is a legitimate patch-worthy issue but not a drop-everything priority absent exploitation evidence, and its practical impact depends heavily on how niche the affected plugin is. Note the input tag labels this an 'Authentication Bypass' while the CWE-862 classification and description describe Missing Authorization (authorization, not authentication) - verify the precise mechanism with the Patchstack advisory. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote, unauthenticated attacker sends a crafted HTTP request to a WordPress site running a vulnerable version (up to 3.7.8) of the Swish for WooCommerce plugin, invoking a plugin action or endpoint that fails to verify the caller's authorization. This lets the attacker read or alter limited payment-plugin data or trigger functionality intended for privileged users. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, so exploitation would require an attacker to independently derive the vulnerable endpoint. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026
Missing authorization (CWE-862) in the BjornTech Swish for WooCommerce WordPress plugin at versions up to and including 3.7.8 lets unauthenticated remote attackers reach plugin endpoints that perform no access-control check, yielding limited reads and modifications of the protected Swish payment functionality (CVSS 6.5, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N). Only WooCommerce stores running this Sweden-specific Swish mobile-payment integration are exposed, so the practical attack surface is narrow geographic/vertical footprint rather than mass exploitation. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, no CISA KEV listing applies, and no EPSS score was supplied with the source data.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis - the supplied data confirms 3.7.8 as the last affected version but provides no fixed version number, so do not assume a specific upgrade target; check the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/woo-swish-e-commerce/vulnerability/wordpress-bjorntech-swish-for-woocommerce-plugin-3-7-8-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) and the WordPress.org plugin page for the vendor's patched release and apply it as soon as it is published. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, the highest-fidelity compensating control is to deactivate and remove the woo-swish-e-commerce plugin on stores that do not use Swish - trade-off: Swish mobile payments disappear from checkout, but the vulnerable code path is eliminated entirely. Where Swish must stay live, front the site with a WAF or reverse-proxy rule that blocks unauthenticated requests to the plugin's AJAX/REST routes and to direct PHP access under /wp-content/plugins/woo-swish-e-commerce/, allowing only requests carrying a valid logged-in WooCommerce session - trade-off: aggressive rules can break legitimate guest-checkout payment callbacks and require tuning plus log review. Additionally, restrict wp-admin and admin-ajax.php exposure by IP or basic auth for store staff, and monitor web logs for anomalous direct requests to the plugin directory as a virtual-patch backstop until a fixed release is deployed.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The target is a WordPress plugin that integrates the Swedish Swish mobile payment system into WooCommerce checkout and order flows, registering AJAX and/or REST handlers in the bjorntech_swish_for_woocommerce namespace (CPE cpe:2.3:a:bjorntech:bjorntech_swish_for_woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*). CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) means the handler logic executes without validating that the caller holds the required capability, and typically also without a valid nonce check. Because the assessed CVSS vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, no account, no elevated role, and no victim interaction are needed: an attacker simply crafts HTTP requests directly to the vulnerable route on a site where the plugin is active. The impact is deliberately bounded by the vector's C:L/I:L/A:N - the missing check guards low-sensitivity payment/config data and state rather than granting administrative privileges, so this is a broken-access-control exposure of the plugin's own functionality, not a full site takeover primitive.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated network-reachable WordPress endpoint missing an authorization check (PR:N, AV:N, AC:L), yielding limited data read and modification (C:L/I:L) with no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Missing Authorization vulnerability in bjorntech BjornTech Swish for WooCommerce woo-swish-e-commerce allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects BjornTech Swish for WooCommerce: from n/a through 3.7.8.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-107280
GHSA-33rr-86j4-rg56
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