WPC Smart Linked Products - Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce <= 1.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2025-30825
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published April 1, 2025
Last Updated April 10, 2025
Researcher theviper17y
Description

The WPC Smart Linked Products – Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.5. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting roles. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to elevate their privileges.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpc-smart-linked-products (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.5
Patched Version
  • 1.3.6
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