CVE-2025-47461: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The vulnerability CVE-2025-47461 is an Authentication Bypass vulnerability discovered in the Subaccounts for WooCommerce WordPress plugin. The issue affects versions through 1.6.6 and was disclosed on May 12, 2025. The vulnerability allows authentication abuse through an alternate path or channel, potentially compromising WordPress installations using the affected plugin (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as an Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288). It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This scoring indicates that the vulnerability requires low attack complexity, can be exploited remotely, and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

The vulnerability can be exploited by malicious actors to perform actions normally restricted to higher privileged users. This could potentially lead to admin access to the affected website. The high CVSS score of 8.8 indicates that this vulnerability is considered highly dangerous and is expected to become mass exploited (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.6.7 of the Subaccounts for WooCommerce plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to this version or later immediately. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).