CVE-2025-14977 Missing authorization in Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy
Authenticated attackers can read or modify other vendors' sensitive payment settings and PayPal emails via an insecure REST API endpoint.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14977?
CVE-2025-14977 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in dokaninc Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy, published on 20 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 via the `/wp-json/dokan/v1/settings` REST API endpoint due to missing validation on a user-controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with customer-level permissions and above, to read or modify other vendors' store settings including sensitive payment information (PayPal email, bank account details, routing numbers, IBAN, SWIFT codes), phone numbers, and addresses, and change PayPal email addresses to attacker-controlled addresses, enabling financial theft when the marketplace processes payouts.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14977?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14977?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14977 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-2025-14977 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14977 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9fx4-284h-m253.