CVE-2025-14977

Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy <= 4.2.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to PayPal Account Takeover and Sensitive Information Disclosure

2026-01-19 15:32
shark3y

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.2.5
Affected Plugin
Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy
Affected Version
<= 4.2.4
CVSS
8.1High
Weakness type
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
CVE
CVE-2025-14977
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At a glance

CVE-2025-14977 is a high-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.2.4. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity impact). The issue is fixed in version 4.2.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2026, reported by shark3y.

Vulnerability Overview

The Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 via the `/wp-json/dokan/v1/settings` REST API endpoint due to missing validation on a user-controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with customer-level permissions and above, to read or modify other vendors' store settings including sensitive payment information (PayPal email, bank account details, routing numbers, IBAN, SWIFT codes), phone numbers, and addresses, and change PayPal email addresses to attacker-controlled addresses, enabling financial theft when the marketplace processes payouts.

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.

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Reaching this weakness in Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 4.2.4 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.

Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution the fix is 4.2.5: builds <= 4.2.4 are affected, anything from 4.2.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.2.5, 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 4.2.5 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-2025-14977https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ab9d7e9-9a81-48f8-bc37-ad6de43a566fhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14977

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