Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer <= 1.5.16 — Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Arbitrary Options Update
CVE-2025-54697Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.5.16Update to 1.5.17 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer kadence-woocommerce-email-designer
- Affected≤ 1.5.16
- Patched in1.5.17
Update to 1.5.17 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.16. Version 1.5.17 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.5.17, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Denver Jackson.
The Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to insufficient input validation on the import_woomail() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.6 | Authenticated (Shop Manager+) PHP Object Injection ≤1.5.19.1Update to 1.5.19.2 | CVE-2026-94677 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation ≤1.5.19Update to 1.5.19.1 | CVE-2026-28005 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.5.17Update to 1.5.18 | CVE-2025-13387 | |
| High7.2 | Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Upload ≤1.5.14Update to 1.5.15 | CVE-2025-39557 | |
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤1.5.11Update to 1.5.12 | CVE-2023-47186 |
- Medium6.6Authenticated (Shop Manager+) PHP Object Injection
≤1.5.19.1Update to 1.5.19.2
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
≤1.5.19Update to 1.5.19.1
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.5.17Update to 1.5.18
- High7.2Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Upload
≤1.5.14Update to 1.5.15
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.5.11Update to 1.5.12
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. 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.