WP SmartPay <= 2.7.13 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Account Takeover
CVE-2025-25171Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.7.13Update to 2.8.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
WPSmartPay – Payment Forms, Invoices, Donations & Subscriptions smartpay
- Affected≤ 2.7.13
- Patched in2.8.0
Update to 2.8.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.7.13. Version 2.8.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPSmartPay – Payment Forms, Invoices, Donations & Subscriptions.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.8.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WPSmartPay – Payment Forms, Invoices, Donations & Subscriptions to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Le Ngoc Anh.
The Download Manager and Payment Form WordPress Plugin – WP SmartPay plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions 1.1.0 to 2.7.13. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their email through the update() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
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 WPSmartPay – Payment Forms, Invoices, Donations & Subscriptions
All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | 2.7.13 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure 1.1.0 – 2.7.13Update to 2.8.0 | CVE-2025-3851 |
- Medium4.32.7.13 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure
1.1.0 – 2.7.13Update to 2.8.0
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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