CVE-2025-12975 Missing authorization in Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce – CTX Feed – Support 220+ Shopping & Social Channels
Authenticated Shop Managers can install arbitrary plugins due to missing capability checks, potentially leading to remote code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12975?
CVE-2025-12975 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wahid0003 Product Feed Manager for WooCommerce – CTX Feed – Support 220+ Shopping & Social Channels, published on 19 Feb 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The CTX Feed – WooCommerce Product Feed Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the woo_feed_plugin_installing() function in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins which can be leveraged to achieve remote code execution.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12975?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12975?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12975 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-12975 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12975 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xwqg-rc23-pwjj.