CVE-2025-8898

Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce | E-cab <= 1.3.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

2025-08-15 00:00
Phat RiO

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.1
Affected Plugin
E-cab Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce
Affected Version
<= 1.3.0
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2025-8898
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At a glance

CVE-2025-8898 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the E-cab Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.0. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2025, reported by Phat RiO.

Vulnerability Overview

The Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce | E-cab plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's capabilities prior to updating a plugin setting or their identity prior to updating their details like email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account. CVE-2025-54713 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

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, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in E-cab Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce <= 1.3.0 takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For E-cab Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce the fix is 1.3.1: builds <= 1.3.0 are affected, anything from 1.3.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.1, 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: E-cab Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce 1.3.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8898https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd50ac2c-3049-4a44-b7f8-a5f87c42555chttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8898

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