Appy Pie Connect for WooCommerce <= 1.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via reset_user_password

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2025-9286
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 2, 2025
Last Updated October 30, 2025
Researcher johska
Description

The Appy Pie Connect for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization within the reset_user_password() REST handler in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to to reset the password of arbitrary users, including administrators, thereby gaining administrative access.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug appy-pie-connect-for-woocommerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.2
Patched Version
  • 1.1.3
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