CVE-2025-13441

Published: Nov 27, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

5.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The Hide Category by User Role for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1. This is due to a missing capability check on the admin_init hook that executes wp_cache_flush(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to flush the site's object cache via forged requests, potentially degrading site performance.

Related CWEs

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (4)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce/tags/2.3.1/admin/admin-ui-setup.php#L165

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce/trunk/admin/admin-ui-setup.php#L165

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3402760%40hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce&new=3402760%40hide-category-by-user-role-for-woocommerce&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b05b0f6d-ffa4-40f4-b969-1153192c52d6?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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