WPshop 2 – E-Commerce 2.0.0 - 2.6.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User Key Generation

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2025-3853
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published May 6, 2025
Last Updated July 25, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The WPshop 2 – E-Commerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions 2.0.0 to 2.6.0 via the callback_generate_api_key() due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create valid API keys on behalf of other users.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpshop (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 2.0.0 - 2.6.0
Patched Version
  • 2.6.1
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