Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain Subscriber-level account
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ExploitCall unprotected blacklist action
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ExecutionSubmit victim customer details
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ImpactLegitimate customers blocked from ordering
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
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 Fraud Prevention For WooCommerce and EDD plugin (version before 2.3.6) installed and active on a WordPress site alongside WooCommerce or EDD, and the attacker must hold an authenticated account of Subscriber role or above (PR:L) - the plugin fails to check order-management capability before adding customer details to the fraud blacklist. Limiting factors: exploitation is gated by needing a valid low-privilege account, so sites that disable open/self-service registration substantially raise the bar; impact is limited to blocking legitimate customers from ordering (availability/integrity of the blacklist), with no data disclosure and no code execution. No user interaction is needed (UI:N). |
| Impact | This is a moderate, low-urgency issue rather than a high-priority emergency. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L, base 5.4) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity flaw requiring low privileges (PR:L) - i.e. an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above - with no confidentiality impact and only limited integrity and availability impact. All threat-intelligence signals point the same direction and are mutually consistent: EPSS is very low (0.13%, 3rd percentile), SSVC shows Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial, there is no CISA KEV listing, and the vuln.today decision label is 'this_month' (routine patch cadence, not act_now/emergency). No signals conflict here. The practical impact is a business-logic denial of service: an abuser can blacklist legitimate customers, degrading store availability (A:L) and data integrity of the fraud list (I:L), but cannot read data or take over the system. Net: a genuine access-control defect worth patching in normal cycles, but not a drop-everything issue, especially on sites that do not allow open/self-service account registration. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | On a WooCommerce or EDD store running the plugin before 2.3.6, an attacker registers or obtains a low-privilege account (Subscriber or above). Because the plugin does not verify order-management capability, the attacker invokes the add-to-blacklist action with a target customer's details, causing that legitimate customer to be blocked from placing orders. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; exploitation would require a working authenticated request against the vulnerable action. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
Missing capability checks in the Fraud Prevention For WooCommerce and EDD WordPress plugin before 2.3.6 allow any authenticated user at Subscriber role or above to add a legitimate customer's details to the store's fraud blacklist, which then prevents that customer from placing orders. Exploitation requires the plugin to be active alongside WooCommerce or EDD and requires a valid low-privilege account, so sites that disable open self-registration raise the bar considerably; there is no data disclosure and no code execution, and impact is confined to integrity and availability of the ordering/blacklist function. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS is 0.13% (3rd percentile), the vendor has released a patch, and this is assessed as a moderate, low-urgency issue rather than a high-priority emergency.
RemediationAI
Update the Fraud Prevention For WooCommerce and EDD plugin to version 2.3.6 or later; the vendor has released the fix and the advisory is at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3bb95ff2-b7b6-438f-9a92-9533975579af/. Until the upgrade is applied, the practical exposure reduction is to remove the low-privilege foothold the flaw depends on: close self-service registration or otherwise stop untrusted parties from obtaining Subscriber-level accounts, recognising that this alters site onboarding and may break legitimate customer sign-ups. Where an active site cannot be patched promptly, consider deactivating the plugin temporarily, with the trade-off that order fraud screening is lost for the duration. Store operators should also review existing blacklist entries for customer records that were added without an administrator action, since poisoned entries persist and continue to block legitimate buyers until removed.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The target is a WordPress plugin that hooks into the order-handling flows of WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads to maintain a store-side fraud blacklist keyed on customer details. The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): the code path that writes a customer's details into the blacklist does not verify that the acting user holds the capability required to manage orders, so the only gate on the action is holding any authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. Because WordPress commonly allows self-service registration defaulting to the Subscriber role, the privilege barrier is low on sites with open registration. The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L confirms the flaw is remotely reachable without user interaction but requires authenticated access (PR:L) and yields only partial integrity and availability impact, with no confidentiality impact - consistent with a blacklist-poisoning effect rather than data exposure or code execution. The specific request endpoint or action hook through which the blacklist write is invoked is not described in the available sources, and the vulnerability is not considered automatable under CISA SSVC (Automatable: no, Technical Impact: partial).
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Network-reachable WP action, low complexity, needs an authenticated Subscriber account (PR:L); no confidentiality impact, limited integrity (blacklist tampering) and availability (blocking customers).
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Fraud Prevention For WooCommerce and EDD WordPress plugin before 2.3.6 does not check that a user is allowed to manage orders before letting them add an order's customer details to the store's fraud blacklist, which could allow users with the Subscriber role and above to prevent arbitrary legitimate customers from placing orders.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
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EUVD-2026-113729
GHSA-h254-x8fv-6853
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