WPC Smart Linked Products — Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce <= 1.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2025-30825Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.3.5Update to 1.3.6 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?
WPC Smart Linked Products – Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce wpc-smart-linked-products
- Affected≤ 1.3.5
- Patched in1.3.6
Update to 1.3.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.5. Version 1.3.6 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPC Smart Linked Products – Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.3.6, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WPC Smart Linked Products – Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to theviper17y.
The WPC Smart Linked Products – Upsells & Cross-sells for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.5. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting roles. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to elevate their privileges.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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.
- 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.