Admin and Customer Messages After Order for WooCommerce: OrderConvo <= 14 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated User Impersonation in Order Messages
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 15
- Affected Plugin
- OrderConvo – Vendor & Customer Messages After Orders
- Affected Version
<= 14- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- CVE
CVE-2025-13452
At a glance
CVE-2025-13452 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the OrderConvo WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 14. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 15; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan).
Vulnerability Overview
The Admin and Customer Messages After Order for WooCommerce: OrderConvo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 14. This is due to a flawed permission check in the REST API permission callback that returns true when no nonce is provided. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to impersonate any WordPress user and inject arbitrary messages into any WooCommerce order conversation by directly calling the REST endpoint with controlled user_id, order_id, and context parameters.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Reaching this weakness in OrderConvo <= 14 takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.
Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For OrderConvo the fix is 15: builds <= 14 are affected, anything from 15 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 15, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: OrderConvo 15 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in OrderConvo – Vendor & Customer Messages After Orders
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