Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce <= 2.8.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Partial Payment Creation/Cancellation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.8.1
- Affected Plugin
- Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 2.8.0- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-14971
At a glance
CVE-2025-14971 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.8.0. 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 2.8.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2026, reported by Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan).
Vulnerability Overview
The Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the createPartialPayment and cancelPartialPayment functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create partial payments on any order or cancel any existing partial payment via ID enumeration.
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
Reaching this weakness in Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce <= 2.8.0 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 Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce the fix is 2.8.1: builds <= 2.8.0 are affected, anything from 2.8.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.8.1, 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: Link Invoice Payment for WooCommerce 2.8.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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