CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-13441

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to and including 2.3.1. This is due to a missing capability check on the admin_init hook that executes wp_cache_flush(), allowing unauthenticated attackers to flush the site's object cache via forged requests.

Risk Assessment

This may degrade site performance and, in extreme cases, lead to denial of service.

Recommendation

Update the Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce plugin to a version later than 2.3.1.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1. This is due to a missing capability check on the admin_init hook that executes wp_cache_flush(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to flush the site's object cache via forged requests, potentially degrading site performance.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS