Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce <= 1.0.42 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Refund Status Update

Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12621
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 7, 2025
Last Updated November 8, 2025
Researcher Powpy
Description

The Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'create_refund' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.42. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to update the status of refund requests, including approving and refusing refunds.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.42
Patched Version
  • 1.0.43
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