CVE-2025-12469

FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce <= 3.6.4.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Email Sending

2025-11-04 20:51
Rafshanzani Suhada

Strategic Overview

At a glance

CVE-2025-12469 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the FunnelKit Automations WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.6.4.1. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 3.6.4.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Rafshanzani Suhada.

Vulnerability Overview

The FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.4.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform administrative actions in the `bwfan_test_email` AJAX handler. The nonce used for verification is publicly exposed to all visitors (including unauthenticated users) via the frontend JavaScript localization, and the `check_nonce()` function accepts low-privilege authenticated users who possess this nonce. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to send arbitrary emails from the site with attacker-controlled subject and body content.

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.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

FunnelKit Automations <= 3.6.4.1 carries this weakness at check_nonce(), and reaching it 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. For FunnelKit Automations the fix is 3.6.4.2: builds <= 3.6.4.1 are affected, anything from 3.6.4.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.6.4.2, or a newer patched version

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. None of that substitutes for the fix: FunnelKit Automations 3.6.4.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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