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CVE-2025-12621: Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce <= 1.0.42 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Refund Status Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-08 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'create_refund' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.42. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to update the status of refund requests, including approving and refusing refunds.

Affected products

• wpdesk Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce: through 1.0.42

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce/trunk/vendor_prefixed/wpdesk/flexible-refunds-core/src/Integration/Ajax.php#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old=3378649%40flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F1.0.42&new=3390898%40flexible-refund-and-return-order-for-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F1.0.43
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8498c671-b46e-420c-a482-7c6983596753?source=cve

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