# CVE-2025-9209: Auth bypass in RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System

> Unauthenticated attackers can forge JWT tokens using exposed user data to bypass authentication and gain administrator access.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3f29-4g5p-wvc9

## What is CVE-2025-9209?

CVE-2025-9209 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in magnigenie RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System, published on 3 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions 3.0.0 to 3.1.9.2. This is due to the plugin exposing user private tokens and API data via the /wp-json/wp/v2/users REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to forge JWT tokens for other users, including administrators, and authenticate as them.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9209?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-9209?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9209 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-9209 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-9209 exists.

Public exploit code:

- RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System 3.0.0 - 3.1.9.2 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure to Authentication Bypass via Forged JWT (github_poc): https://github.com/Nxploited/CVE-2025-9209
- RestroPress 3.0.0-3.2.1 - Authentication Bypass (nuclei): http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-9209.yaml

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9209 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-9209 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in magnigenie RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System, published on 3 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-9209 exists.

Affected product: magnigenie RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System. 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-2025-9209/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9209/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9209
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9209
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9209

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9209/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.