Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-68018

Critical

Published: 22 January 2026

Published
22 January 2026
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0031 22.1th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-68018 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.4 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 22.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-14 (Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-68018 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Order Listener for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, also known as woc-order-alert or StackWC Order Listener for WooCommerce. The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions from n/a through 3.6.1. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L), highlighting its critical severity due to high impacts on confidentiality and integrity.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation grants high-level access to sensitive data and allows significant modifications to system integrity, while causing limited availability disruption.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/woc-order-alert/vulnerability/wordpress-order-listener-for-woocommerce-plugin-3-6-0-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing Authorization vulnerability in StackWC Order Listener for WooCommerce woc-order-alert allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Order Listener for WooCommerce: from n/a through <= 3.6.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-862

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Missing authorization (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated exploitation of a web application.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Enforces approved authorizations for access to system resources, directly mitigating the missing authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote exploitation.

AC-14 Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication good match
prevent

Prohibits actions without identification or authentication except explicitly permitted ones, preventing unauthenticated attackers from exploiting the plugin's broken access control.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match
prevent

Applies least privilege to limit the impact of unauthorized access on confidentiality and integrity even if initial authorization checks fail.

References