CVE-2025-13441CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2025-13441

Medium · published November 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00279 · 19.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2025-11-27T12:15Z
References (4)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce/tags/2.3.1/admin/admin-ui-setup.php#L165 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce/trunk/admin/admin-ui-setup.php#L165 · [email protected]https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3402760%40hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce&new=3402760%40hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b05b0f6d-ffa4-40f4-b969-1153192c52d6?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 NOV 06:42Z
    Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce <= 2.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Cache Flushing
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