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WooCommerce GoCardless Gateway <= 2.5.6 — Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference

CVE-2023-37871Published Jul 10, 2023 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Affected: ≤2.5.6Update to 2.5.7 or newer

All remediation steps

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Severity

Medium6.5

CVSS

6.5

CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

What does this vector mean?

AV:N Attack vector: Network
AC:L Attack complexity: Low
PR:N Privileges required: None
UI:N User interaction: None
S:U Scope: Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality: Low
I:L Integrity: Low
A:N Availability: None

Weakness

CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Required access

No account needed

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

No score

CISA KEV

Not listed

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Am I affected?

WooCommerce GoCardless Gateway woocommerce-gateway-gocardless

Affected≤ 2.5.6
Patched in2.5.7

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.5.6. Version 2.5.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WooCommerce GoCardless Gateway.
No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

Update to version 2.5.7, or a newer patched version
Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
Watch WooCommerce GoCardless Gateway to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rafie Muhammad.

The WooCommerce GoCardless Gateway plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 2.5.6. This is due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to cancel guest orders or expose sensitive information about an order.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

Advisorywordfence.com

Timeline

Jul 10, 2023
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Nov 13, 2026
Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record

Vulnerability data: Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE: National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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