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CVE-2025-12091: Search, Filters & Merchandising for WooCommerce <= 3.0.67 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Deactivation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-06 · updated 2026-10-15
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Search, Filters & Merchandising for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wcis_save_email' endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.67. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to deactivate the plugin.

Affected products

• instantsearchplus Search, Filters & Merchandising for WooCommerce: through 3.0.67

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/instantsearch-for-woocommerce/tags/3.0.64/public/wcis_plugin.php#L1074
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/instantsearch-for-woocommerce/trunk/public/wcis_plugin.php#L1074
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3415224/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/daa8f941-6e87-4b94-8526-f73770fe6f82?source=cve

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