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MStore API EUVDEUVD-2026-91216

| CVE-2026-97219 MEDIUM
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-10-02 WPScan GHSA-2gpc-rx3g-g49h
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: WPScan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Self-register customer account
  2. Delivery
    Place order and leave it unpaid
  3. Exploit
    Send crafted order-update API request
  4. Execution
    Flip own order status to paid/fulfilled
  5. Impact
    Receive goods without payment

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 a store running the MStore API plugin (versions before 4.22.1) with customer self-registration enabled - the default for most WooCommerce storefronts - and the attacker must first create an order so there is an unpaid order to manipulate. The vulnerability is that the order-update endpoint does not restrict which order fields a customer may modify, so no admin rights or victim interaction are needed; exploitation is limited only by needing a valid (self-registerable) authenticated account (PR:L) and an existing unpaid order belonging to the attacker. Impact is confined to the attacker's own orders, bounding the blast radius to payment fraud rather than account takeover or data exposure.

Impact

This is a moderate-risk broken access control (business logic / improper authorization) flaw, not a classic memory-corruption bug. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N = 4.3 Medium) is internally consistent with the description: network-reachable, low complexity, and requiring only a low-privilege account that the description confirms is self-registerable, with limited integrity impact and no confidentiality or availability loss. Publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan), which raises practical exploitability, but there is NO CISA KEV listing and NO EPSS score provided, so there is no evidence of active, widespread exploitation at time of analysis - treat this as 'POC available, exploitation not confirmed.' The real-world impact is financial fraud (obtaining goods without payment) rather than system compromise, which is why the CVSS stays Medium despite trivial exploitability; prioritize for e-commerce sites running the plugin, but it is not a drop-everything RCE. Note a minor signal conflict: the input Tags label this 'Information Disclosure,' which contradicts the description - this is an authorization/order-tampering (integrity) issue, so defenders should not triage it as a data-leak bug.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker self-registers a customer account on a WooCommerce store exposed through the MStore API plugin, places an order, and leaves it unpaid. Using the publicly available WPScan proof-of-concept, they send a crafted order-update API request that modifies the status field of their own order to 'paid' or 'completed,' causing the store to fulfill and ship the goods without any payment being received.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026

The MStore API WordPress plugin (versions before 4.22.1) fails to restrict which order fields a customer may update, allowing any authenticated customer to mark their own unpaid order as paid or fulfilled and receive goods without paying; no admin rights or victim interaction are needed. Exploitation requires only a self-registerable customer account and an existing unpaid order belonging to the attacker, matching the CVSS v3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (4.3) and bounding the impact to payment fraud rather than account takeover or data exposure. Publicly available exploit code exists according to WPScan, but there is no indication of confirmed active exploitation (the CVE is not in CISA KEV).

RemediationAI

Upgrade the MStore API plugin to version 4.22.1 or later, the fixed release identified in the vulnerability data; consult the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0787d00b-2263-465f-8f46-906741bf6629/ for the coordinated disclosure details. If patching must be deferred, disable customer self-registration so attackers cannot obtain the low-privilege account the exploit requires (trade-off: legitimate new-customer signups are blocked, which may affect storefront revenue). Additionally, use a WAF or reverse-proxy rule to reject requests from customer-level tokens that attempt to set order status or payment-state fields on the plugin's order-update endpoint (trade-off: an overly broad rule can break legitimate order edits such as shipping-address changes, so scope the rule narrowly to status/payment parameters). Finally, monitor and audit order records for status transitions that lack a matching payment-gateway transaction, since those are the likely fingerprint of exploitation, and consider voiding or re-charging affected orders during incident response.

Affected VersionsENISA

MStore API 4.21.1 <4.22.1

Affected Packages

euvd mstore_api fix: 4.22.1

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerable component is the MStore API plugin for WordPress/WooCommerce, identified by the CPE cpe:2.3:a:unknown:mstore_api (vendor/product naming is not fully resolved in the CPE dictionary). The underlying issue is an improper authorization / broken access-control flaw of the business-logic variety - conceptually closest to CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) or CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) - in the plugin's order-update REST endpoint. That endpoint accepts client-supplied order fields without an allowlist, so fields governing order status and payment state can be changed by the order's owner. Authentication is supplied by WordPress user registration: any visitor who can self-register obtains a low-privilege customer account, which is why the assessed CVSS vector carries PR:L (authenticated, no UI interaction, no privileges beyond a normal customer). The plugin runs server-side within a WooCommerce storefront, so no memory-corruption, remote-code-execution, or cross-order data-exposure primitive is involved; the integrity impact is confined to the attacker's own order records.

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Severity by source

Vendor (WPScan) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Self-registerable account gives PR:L over a network API with no user interaction; impact is limited tampering with own order status, so I:L and C/A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).

CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Oct 02, 2026 - 08:01 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 02, 2026 - 06:56 cve.org
MEDIUM 4.3

DescriptionCVE.org

The MStore API WordPress plugin before 4.22.1 does not restrict which fields of an order a customer may update, allowing any authenticated user with a self-registerable account to change the status of their own unpaid order to a paid or fulfilled state and receive the goods without paying.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 93% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WooCommerce mobile-app API plugin, common but not universal
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

42
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

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