CVE-2025-14783

Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.6.2 - Unvalidated Redirect in Password Reset Flow via edd_redirect

2025-12-30 17:50

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 3.6.3
Affected Plugin: Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
Affected Version: <= 3.6.2
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-640 · Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
CVE: CVE-2025-14783

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At a glance

CVE-2025-14783 is a medium-severity Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in the Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.6.2. 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 3.6.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by shark3y.

Vulnerability Overview

The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unvalidated Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.2. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect url supplied via the 'edd_redirect' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users with the password reset email to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into performing an action.

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 privileges on the target site.

CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.6.2 carries this weakness at edd_redirect, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A weak password recovery mechanism means the path that lets someone back into an account without their password is easier to complete than the password itself.

An attacker takes over an account through the recovery flow without ever seeing the password, and on an administrator account that is full control of the site. For Easy Digital Downloads the fix is 3.6.3: builds <= 3.6.2 are affected, anything from 3.6.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.6.3, 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: Easy Digital Downloads 3.6.3 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-2025-14783 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3c0fb43c-f576-412e-a144-4725356ed9a0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14783

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CVSS Vector

4.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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