Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in WPshop E-Commerce Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-3852
8.8HIGH
What is CVE-2025-3852?
The WPshop 2 β E-Commerce plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a privilege escalation flaw, allowing authenticated attackers to manipulate user account details. This issue arises from inadequate validation of user identity during updates to critical account information such as email and password. Attackers with subscriber-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability to change the passwords of any user, including administrators, potentially compromising entire accounts and sensitive data.
Affected Version(s)
WPshop 2 β E-Commerce 2.0.0 <= 2.6.0
References
CVSS V3.1
Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved
Credit
Kenneth Dunn