Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.9.2
- Affected Theme
- Basel - Responsive WooCommerce Theme
- Affected Version
<= 5.9.1- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-67568
At a glance
CVE-2025-67568 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Basel - Responsive WooCommerce Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 5.9.1. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.9.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by João Pedro Soares de Alcântara.
Vulnerability Overview
The Basel - Responsive WooCommerce Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Basel - Responsive WooCommerce Theme <= 5.9.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Basel - Responsive WooCommerce Theme the fix is 5.9.2: builds <= 5.9.1 are affected, anything from 5.9.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.9.2, 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: Basel - Responsive WooCommerce Theme 5.9.2 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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