CVE-2025-31415
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Missing Authorization vulnerability identified in YayCommerce YayExtra plugin version 1.5.2 and earlier, tracked as CVE-2025-31415. The vulnerability was discovered on March 19, 2025, and publicly disclosed on March 31, 2025. This security flaw allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels in the WordPress plugin (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a broken access control issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.6 (High). The security flaw stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in certain functions, potentially allowing unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions. The vulnerability has been assigned CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) classification (Patchstack).

Impact

This high-severity vulnerability is considered highly dangerous and expected to become mass exploited. The flaw could allow unauthorized users to perform privileged actions, potentially compromising the security of affected WordPress installations (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are strongly advised to update to YayExtra version 1.5.3 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. For users unable to update immediately, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until the update can be applied (Patchstack).

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