CVE-2025-12621
Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce <= 1.0.42 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Refund Status Update
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Nov 8, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Nov 2, 2025
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommercewpdesk |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8498c671-b46e-420c-a482-7c6983596753?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce/trunk/vendor_prefixed/wpdesk/flexible-refunds-core/src/Integration/Ajax.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old=3378649%40flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F1.0.42&new=3390898%40flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F1.0.43
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