CVE-2025-3852
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe WPshop 2 – E-Commerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions 2.0.0 to 2.6.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email & password through the update() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe WPshop 2 E-Commerce plugin for WordPress versions 2.0.0 to 2.6.0 contains an IDOR vulnerability in its update() function that fails to validate the user's identity before allowing password and email changes. An authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access can reset any user's password, including administrator accounts, enabling full account takeover and privilege escalation.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if WPshop 2 plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress admin > Plugins, or inspect the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for a wpshop or wpshop-2 folder. Check plugin version from the plugin headers or readme.txt file.Affected if The WPshop 2 plugin is present in the WordPress installation
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Determine the installed plugin versionOpen the main plugin file (usually wpshop.php or similar) and locate the Version header in the plugin comment block, or check the readme.txt file.Affected if The installed version has not received a security patch for CVE-2025-3852
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Verify user role permissions configurationNavigate to WordPress admin > Users > Users and review all subscriber-level accounts. Check if any unexpected subscriber accounts exist, especially those with usernames matching admin or administrator.Affected if Unrecognized subscriber-level accounts exist or subscriber accounts have been created after plugin installation
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Audit recent user account changesReview WordPress user audit logs, activity logs, or check user meta for last_login and password reset timestamps. Look for unexpected password or email changes on administrator accounts.Affected if Administrator accounts show password or email changes initiated by unexpected user IDs or IP addresses
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Inspect API or AJAX endpoints for the update functionCheck plugin source code for the update() function and verify whether it includes current_user_can() or wp_verify_nonce() checks before processing user credential changes.Affected if The update() function lacks proper capability checks or nonce verification before allowing email or password modifications
If WPshop 2 plugin is installed and its update() function processes user credential changes without verifying the requesting user's identity, the environment is vulnerable to CVE-2025-3852.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate to a patched version of WPshop 2 plugin as soon as available. If no patch is immediately available, disable the plugin or restrict access to the affected endpoints at the web server level until a fix is released.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-3852 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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