Woo Slider Pro - Drag Drop Slider Builder For WooCommerce <= 1.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Deletion
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- Woo Slider Pro – Drag Drop Slider Builder For WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.12- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-4597
At a glance
CVE-2025-4597 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Woo Slider Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.12. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed May 2025, reported by Chuck.
Vulnerability Overview
The Woo Slider Pro – Drag Drop Slider Builder For WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the woo_slide_pro_delete_draft_preview AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts.
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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Woo Slider Pro <= 1.12 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Woo Slider Pro yet, so installs running <= 1.12 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
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