CVE-2025-12095
📋 TL;DR
This CSRF vulnerability in the Simple Registration for WooCommerce WordPress plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to trick administrators into approving role requests, leading to privilege escalation. Attackers can forge requests that change user roles when an admin clicks a malicious link. All WordPress sites using this plugin up to version 1.5.8 are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Simple Registration for WooCommerce WordPress plugin
⚠️ Manual Verification Required
This CVE does not have specific version information in our database, so automatic vulnerability detection cannot determine if your system is affected.
Why? The CVE database entry doesn't specify which versions are vulnerable (no version ranges provided by the vendor/NVD).
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- Review the CVE details at NVD
- Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
- Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
- Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers gain administrative access by escalating privileges of existing users or creating new admin accounts, leading to complete site compromise, data theft, and malware installation.
Likely Case
Attackers create or escalate user accounts to gain unauthorized access, potentially leading to data exfiltration, content manipulation, or further attacks from within the site.
If Mitigated
With proper CSRF protections and admin awareness, exploitation attempts fail, maintaining normal site operations with no privilege escalation.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires social engineering to trick an admin into clicking a malicious link, but the technical complexity of crafting the CSRF request is low.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Version 1.5.9 or later
Vendor Advisory: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3383124
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Log into WordPress admin panel. 2. Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins. 3. Find 'Simple Registration for WooCommerce'. 4. Click 'Update Now' if available, or download version 1.5.9+ from WordPress repository. 5. Activate the updated plugin.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable plugin temporarily
allDeactivate the vulnerable plugin until patched to prevent exploitation.
wp plugin deactivate woocommerce-simple-registration
Add CSRF protection via .htaccess
linuxRestrict access to the vulnerable admin page to prevent unauthorized requests.
# Add to .htaccess in WordPress root:
<Files "display-role-admin.php">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</Files>
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Disable the Simple Registration for WooCommerce plugin immediately to eliminate the attack surface.
- Implement strict access controls and monitor admin activity for suspicious role changes.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check plugin version in WordPress admin under Plugins > Installed Plugins. If version is 1.5.8 or lower, you are vulnerable.Check Version:
wp plugin get woocommerce-simple-registration --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
After updating, verify the plugin version is 1.5.9 or higher in the WordPress plugins list.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual role change events in WordPress logs
- Multiple role approval requests from single IP
- Admin page accesses without proper referrer headers
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to /wp-admin/admin.php?page=woocommerce-simple-registration-role-requests without CSRF tokens
- Suspicious referrer URLs in admin requests
SIEM Query:
source="wordpress.log" AND (event="role_change" OR event="user_privilege_escalation") AND user_agent CONTAINS "malicious"