PayHere Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce <= 2.3.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Status Modification

2026-01-13 17:29

Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.4.0

Affected PluginPayHere Payment Gateway

Affected Version<= 2.3.9

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2025-15475

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Vulnerability Overview

The PayHere Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improper validation logic in the check_payhere_response function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the status of pending WooCommerce orders to paid/completed/on hold.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.4.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15475 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0c92241-0bef-4f87-8478-4d805435f09d

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

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

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