Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce <= 1.7.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Limited File Write
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.7.2
- Affected Plugin
- Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.7.1- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-12655
At a glance
CVE-2025-12655 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.7.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by NumeX.
Vulnerability Overview
The Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file write via a missing authorization check in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1. This is due to the REST API endpoint `/wp-json/hippoo/v1/wc/token/save_callback/{token_id}` being registered with `permission_callback => '__return_true'`, which allows unauthenticated access. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary JSON content to the server's publicly accessible upload directory via the vulnerable endpoint.
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.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce <= 1.7.1 carries this weakness at __return_true, and reaching it 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 Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce the fix is 1.7.2: builds <= 1.7.1 are affected, anything from 1.7.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.7.2, 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: Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce 1.7.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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