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CVE-2025-12389: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Import Export For WooCommerce plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2025-12389) related to unauthorized modification of data. The vulnerability was discovered in all versions up to and including 1.6.2, and was publicly disclosed on November 3, 2025. The issue affects WordPress installations using the Import Export For WooCommerce plugin (NVD NIST, Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from a missing capability check in the update_setting() function, which creates a security weakness classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization). The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (NVD NIST).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to update the plugin's record settings, potentially leading to unauthorized modification of plugin configurations (NVD NIST).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been temporarily closed as of October 31, 2025, pending a full security review. It is currently not available for download from the WordPress plugin repository (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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