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CVE-2025-1562: Recover WooCommerce Cart Abandonment, Newsletter, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation By FunnelKit <= 3.5.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-06-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Recover WooCommerce Cart Abandonment, Newsletter, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation By FunnelKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the install_or_activate_addon_plugins() function and a weak nonce hash in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install arbitrary plugins on the site that can be leveraged to further infect a vulnerable site.

Affected products

• amans2k FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce: before 3.6.0 — fixed in 3.6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: amans2k FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce 3.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-marketing-automations/tags/2.5.0/includes/api/plugin_status/class-bwfan-api-install-and-activate-plugin.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-marketing-automations/tags/2.5.0/includes/class-bwfan-db.php#L153
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/admin/class-bwfan-admin.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/includes/abstracts/class-bwfan-api-base.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/includes/class-bwfan-api-loader.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/094972e6-7e02-4060-b069-e39c8cde9331?source=cve

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