Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce <= 1.0.42 — Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Refund Status Update
CVE-2025-12621Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.0.42Update to 1.0.43 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Flexible Refund for WooCommerce – EU One Click Return flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce
- Affected≤ 1.0.42
- Patched in1.0.43
Update to 1.0.43 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.42. Version 1.0.43 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Flexible Refund for WooCommerce – EU One Click Return.
- 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 1.0.43, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Flexible Refund for WooCommerce – EU One Click Return to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Powpy.
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.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Flexible Refund for WooCommerce – EU One Click Return
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Customer+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.0.51Update to 1.0.52 | CVE-2026-57402 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Order Refund ≤1.0.38Update to 1.0.39 | CVE-2025-10570 |
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Customer+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.0.51Update to 1.0.52
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Order Refund
≤1.0.38Update to 1.0.39
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
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.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.