CVE-2025-14978 Missing authorization in PeachPay — Payments & Express Checkout for WooCommerce (supports Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net, NMI)
Unauthenticated attackers can modify arbitrary WooCommerce order statuses due to missing capability checks in the PeachPay plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14978?
CVE-2025-14978 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in PeachPay — Payments & Express Checkout for WooCommerce (supports Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net, NMI), published on 20 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The PeachPay — Payments & Express Checkout for WooCommerce (supports Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability checks on the ConvesioPay webhook REST endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.119.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the status of arbitrary WooCommerce orders.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14978?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14978?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14978 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-2025-14978 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14978 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mcww-77h6-2wxm.