Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer <= 1.5.16 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Arbitrary Options Update
Strategic Overview
<= 1.5.16CVE-2025-54697Vulnerability Overview
The Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to insufficient input validation on the import_woomail() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
Technical Analysis
REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.5.17, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
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