Missing authorization in PayHere Payment Gateway
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The PayHere Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improper validation logic in the check_payhere_response function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the status of pending WooCommerce orders to paid/completed/on hold.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-15475
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-28q4-mjmf-52qp
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0c92241-0bef-4f87-8478-4d805435f09d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payhere-payment-gateway/tags/2.3.9/gateway/class-wcgatewaypayhere.php#L709
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3440771%40payhere-payment-gateway&new=3440771%40payhere-payment-gateway&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file10
More payhere vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-05582 PayHere Payment Gateway < 2.2.12 - Unauthenticated Log Data Disclosure CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-15475 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-15475 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-28q4-mjmf-52qp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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