Download Manager and Payment Form WordPress Plugin – WP SmartPay 1.1.0 - 2.7.13 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2025-3848
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 1, 2025
Last Updated July 2, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The Download Manager and Payment Form WordPress Plugin – WP SmartPay plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions 1.1.0 to 2.7.13. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the update() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug smartpay (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • 1.1.0 - 2.7.13
Patched Version
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