CVE-2025-58656

5.3 MEDIUM

📋 TL;DR

This CVE describes a hard-coded credentials vulnerability in the Estonian Shipping Methods for WooCommerce WordPress plugin. Attackers can retrieve embedded sensitive data from affected installations. This affects all WordPress sites using the plugin versions up to 1.7.2.

💻 Affected Systems

Products:
  • Estonian Shipping Methods for WooCommerce
Versions: n/a through 1.7.2
Operating Systems: Any OS running WordPress
Default Config Vulnerable: ⚠️ Yes
Notes: All installations using affected plugin versions are vulnerable regardless of configuration.

⚠️ 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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Recommended Actions:
  1. Review the CVE details at NVD
  2. Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
  3. Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
  4. Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution

⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact

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Worst Case

Attackers gain access to sensitive shipping data, customer information, or administrative credentials, potentially leading to data breach, unauthorized orders, or complete site compromise.

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Likely Case

Unauthorized access to shipping configuration data, exposure of customer shipping details, and potential manipulation of shipping rates or methods.

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If Mitigated

Limited exposure of non-critical configuration data with proper network segmentation and access controls in place.

🌐 Internet-Facing: HIGH
🏢 Internal Only: MEDIUM

🎯 Exploit Status

Public PoC: ✅ No
Weaponized: UNKNOWN
Unauthenticated Exploit: ✅ No
Complexity: MEDIUM

Exploitation requires knowledge of the hard-coded credentials and access to the vulnerable endpoints.

🛠️ Fix & Mitigation

✅ Official Fix

Patch Version: Version after 1.7.2

Vendor Advisory: https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/estonian-shipping-methods-for-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-estonian-shipping-methods-for-woocommerce-plugin-1-7-2-sensitive-data-exposure-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Restart Required: No

Instructions:

1. Log into WordPress admin panel. 2. Navigate to Plugins → Installed Plugins. 3. Find 'Estonian Shipping Methods for WooCommerce'. 4. Click 'Update Now' if update available. 5. If no update available, deactivate and remove plugin, then install latest version from WordPress repository.

🔧 Temporary Workarounds

Temporary Plugin Deactivation

WordPress

Disable the vulnerable plugin until patched version is available

wp plugin deactivate estonian-shipping-methods-for-woocommerce

🧯 If You Can't Patch

  • Implement strict network access controls to limit access to WordPress admin and API endpoints
  • Enable web application firewall rules to block suspicious requests to shipping-related endpoints

🔍 How to Verify

Check if Vulnerable:

Check WordPress admin → Plugins → Installed Plugins for 'Estonian Shipping Methods for WooCommerce' version 1.7.2 or earlier

Check Version:

wp plugin get estonian-shipping-methods-for-woocommerce --field=version

Verify Fix Applied:

Verify plugin version is greater than 1.7.2 in WordPress admin panel

📡 Detection & Monitoring

Log Indicators:

  • Unusual access patterns to shipping API endpoints
  • Multiple failed authentication attempts followed by successful access

Network Indicators:

  • Unexpected requests to /wp-content/plugins/estonian-shipping-methods-for-woocommerce/ endpoints
  • Traffic from unusual sources to shipping-related URLs

SIEM Query:

source="wordpress.log" AND ("estonian-shipping" OR "shipping-methods") AND (status=200 OR status=401)

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