CVE-2025-1562

Recover WooCommerce Cart Abandonment, Newsletter, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation By FunnelKit <= 3.5.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation

The Recover WooCommerce Cart Abandonment, Newsletter, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation By FunnelKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the install_or_activate_addon_plugins() function and a weak nonce hash in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install arbitrary plugins on the site that can be leveraged to further infect a vulnerable site.

Affected

amans2k · FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce

CVSS v3.1 WORDFENCE

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

3.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 89th percentile

Nuclei

critical · CWE-862

Published

2025-06-18

Updated

2026-04-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• gmh5225/CVE-2025-15620★ · 2025-06-22

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-1562.yaml

Security advisories

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/094972e6-7e02-4060-b069-e39c8cd…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/admin…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/inclu…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/inclu…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-marketing-automations/tags/2.5.0/includes/a…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-marketing-automations/tags/2.5.0/includes/c…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2003-0358
• CVE-2015-2291
• CVE-2020-36603
• CVE-2021-42205
• CVE-2022-24716
• CVE-2022-34683