CVE-2025-53425

Dokan <= 4.1.3 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Privilege Escalation

2025-09-20 00:00
Phat RiO

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.1.4
Affected Plugin
Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy
Affected Version
<= 4.1.3
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE
CVE-2025-53425
View all Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2025-53425 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Shop Manager level or above. The issue is fixed in version 4.1.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2025, reported by Phat RiO.

Vulnerability Overview

The Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to gain access to administrator-level accounts.

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 Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 4.1.3 takes an account at Shop Manager 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 Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution the fix is 4.1.4: builds <= 4.1.3 are affected, anything from 4.1.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.1.4, 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: Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution 4.1.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53425https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/84fb53bb-cced-4585-bb0d-c09d89293300https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53425

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