CVE-2025-12777

YITH WooCommerce Wishlist <= 4.10.0 - Unauthenticated Wishlist Token Disclosure to Wishlist Item Deletion

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.10.1
Affected Version
<= 4.10.0
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
CVE
CVE-2025-12777
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At a glance

CVE-2025-12777 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the YITH WooCommerce Wishlist WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.10.0. 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 4.10.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada).

Vulnerability Overview

The YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform actions on the REST API /wp-json/yith/wishlist/v1/lists endpoint (which uses permission_callback => '__return_true') and the AJAX delete_item handler (which only checks nonce validity without verifying object-level authorization). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to disclose wishlist tokens for any user and subsequently delete wishlist items by chaining the REST API authorization bypass with the exposed delete_item nonce on shared wishlist pages and the AJAX handler's missing object-level authorization check.

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-285: Improper Authorization

YITH WooCommerce Wishlist <= 4.10.0 carries this weakness at __return_true, and reaching it takes no account at all. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.

A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For YITH WooCommerce Wishlist the fix is 4.10.1: builds <= 4.10.0 are affected, anything from 4.10.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.10.1, 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: YITH WooCommerce Wishlist 4.10.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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