# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9fx4-284h-m253

## 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 (Improper Access Control)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-14977 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14977 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14977 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14977 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: dokaninc Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14977/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14977/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14977
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14977
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14977

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14977/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.