Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-62884 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Permission Groups Discovery (T1069); ranked at the 17th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-36053
Vulnerability Data
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP Coupon Affiliates woo-coupon-usage allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Coupon Affiliates: from n/a through <= 7.2.0.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Missing authorization (CWE-862) in a WordPress plugin allows an attacker to access functionality that should be restricted, which can facilitate permission groups discovery (T1069) and use of valid accounts (T1078) to abuse improperly constrained ACLs.
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly enforces authorization policy checks before allowing access to plugin functionality, preventing the unauthorized actions described by CWE-862.
Limits privileges granted to any user or session, reducing the impact of missing ACL enforcement on coupon-affiliate functions.
Enforces information-flow rules that can block unauthorized data or function access paths exploited by the missing-authorization flaw.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Explicitly requires defining, enforcing, and reviewing authorizations and least privilege, directly preventing missing authorization checks.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Requiring authentication and credentials before any access occurs eliminates the absence of authorization checks that would otherwise allow an unauthenticated actor to reach protected resources.
Requiring formal authorization of every access request before rights are granted ensures that checks for required permissions are performed, preventing missing authorization checks from being introduced.
Mandatory authorization checks and central records of granted rights ensure that every access attempt is preceded by an explicit decision rather than relying on missing checks.
Segregating the approval of access rights from their implementation provides an independent check that reduces the impact of missing authorization checks in the resulting system configuration.
By requiring competent outsiders to verify that every function enforces the need-to-know principle, the control lowers the likelihood that missing authorization checks persist undetected.
Defining authorization responsibilities and reviewing risk-treatment progress throughout the project lifecycle catches missing authorization checks before the system is deployed.