The Appy Pie Connect for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization within the reset_user_password() REST handler in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to to reset the password of arbitrary users, including administrators, thereby gaining administrative access.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Public exploits 1
- Nxploited/CVE-2025-9286 PoC on GitHub
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 9.8NVD modified 2026-10-12 15:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/appy-pie-connect-for-woocommerce/trunk/connect-woocommerce-rest-api.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3385150/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/appy-pie-connect-for-woocommerce/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/36fb5b8d-1ea4-45c2-8639-b229efdb57db?source=cve