CVE-2025-67969: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2025-67969 is a Missing Authorization (Broken Access Control) vulnerability in the UPI QR Code Payment Gateway for WooCommerce WordPress plugin developed by knitpay. It allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, affecting all plugin versions from n/a through 1.5.1. The vulnerability was published on February 20, 2026, and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) (Feedly, Patchstack).

The root cause is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), meaning the plugin fails to properly verify whether a requesting user has the necessary permissions before executing certain actions or exposing data. The attack vector is network-based, requires no privileges and no user interaction, and has low attack complexity — making it trivially exploitable by any unauthenticated remote attacker. The specific vulnerable functionality relates to improperly protected endpoints or AJAX handlers within the WooCommerce payment gateway plugin that do not enforce capability checks (Feedly, Patchstack).

Successful exploitation results in limited confidentiality impact (unauthorized access to restricted data or plugin functionality) and limited availability impact, with no integrity impact per the CVSS assessment. An unauthenticated attacker could access payment-related configuration data or disrupt plugin functionality on affected WooCommerce stores. The scope is limited to the affected WordPress installation, but exposure of payment gateway configuration details could facilitate further attacks against store operators or customers (Feedly).

No public proof-of-concept exploit code or in-the-wild exploitation has been reported for CVE-2025-67969. The EPSS score is very low at approximately 0.017%, indicating a low probability of exploitation in the near term. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, and no threat actor attribution has been identified (Feedly).

Users should update the UPI QR Code Payment Gateway for WooCommerce plugin to a version beyond 1.5.1 as soon as a patched release is made available by the vendor (knitpay). In the interim, site administrators should consider deactivating the plugin if it is not critical to operations, or restricting access to the WordPress site's AJAX and REST API endpoints via a web application firewall (WAF). Monitoring WordPress access logs for unexpected or unauthorized requests to plugin-specific endpoints is also recommended (Patchstack).