Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce <= 1.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3
- Affected Plugin
- Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.2- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
- CVE
CVE-2025-49379
At a glance
CVE-2025-49379 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Author level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Denver Jackson.
Vulnerability Overview
The Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
Reaching this weakness in Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce <= 1.2 takes an account at Author level or above. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.
It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce the fix is 1.3: builds <= 1.2 are affected, anything from 1.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce 1.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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