CVE-2025-14880: Netcash WooCommerce Payment Gateway <= 4.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Order Status Modification

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: 2026-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Netcash WooCommerce Payment Gateway plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the handle_return_url function in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to mark any WooCommerce order as processing/completed.

Affected products

netcashpaynow Netcash WooCommerce Payment Gateway: through 4.1.3

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/netcash-pay-now-payment-gateway-for-woocommerce/tags/4.1.3/includes/class-wc-gateway-paynow.php#L1127
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3438674/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6ca11df6-83e3-48b5-84b8-3f3e4f75ac4a?source=cve

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