{"id":53059,"date":"2025-06-17T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:55:38","slug":"cve-2025-4387-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability-in-abandoned-cart-pro-for-woocommerce-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4387-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability-in-abandoned-cart-pro-for-woocommerce-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-4387: Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce Plugin<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability we are discussing today, CVE-2025-4387, has been discovered in the Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce plugin. Effectively, it provides a backdoor to attackers wanting to compromise a site&#8217;s server and execute potentially harmful code. Anyone using versions up to, and including, 9.16.0 of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5486-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-wp-email-debug-plugin-for-wordpress\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59447\">plugin is affected by this vulnerability<\/a>.<br \/>\nGiven the popularity of WooCommerce as an ecommerce platform, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31259-vulnerability-in-macos-sequoia-allowing-for-potential-privilege-escalation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59722\">vulnerability could potentially<\/a> impact a significant number of online businesses. The severity of this issue is further heightened by the fact that even an attacker with only subscriber-level access can exploit this vulnerability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3365-path-traversal-vulnerability-leading-to-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59454\">leading to potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-4387<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS score of 8.8)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Authenticated Arbitrary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32291-critical-file-upload-vulnerability-in-fantasticplugins-sumo-affiliates-pro\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"60205\">File Upload<\/a><br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Subscriber-level Access<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31222-potential-privilege-elevation-and-system-compromise-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59674\">Potential system compromise<\/a> or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1622234142\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47608-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-sonalsinha21-recover-abandoned-cart-for-woocommerce\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"60279\">Abandoned Cart<\/a> Pro for WooCommerce |<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce plugin contains an authenticated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-1329-local-user-arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerability-in-ibm-cics-tx\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59377\">arbitrary file upload vulnerability<\/a> due to missing file type validation in the wcap_add_to_cart_popup_upload_files function. This means that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-1330-local-user-arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerability-in-ibm-cics-tx\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59413\">user with subscriber-level access or above can upload arbitrary<\/a> files on the server where the plugin is installed. Once uploaded, these files could potentially be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-1079-client-remote-code-execution-via-improper-symbolic-link-resolution-in-google-web-designer\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59562\">executed either remotely<\/a> or locally depending on the server configuration, thus leading to a system compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2918287000\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of how an attacker might exploit this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5671-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-n302r-plus-http-post-request-handler\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"59563\">vulnerability by sending a POST request<\/a> to the server with a crafted JSON payload containing the malicious file:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/upload_file HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: multipart\/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW\n------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=&quot;file&quot;; filename=&quot;malicious.php&quot;\nContent-Type: application\/x-php\n[...malicious PHP code...]\n------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW--<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Please note this is a simplified example and actual attack vectors could vary based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53786-microsoft-exchange-server-security-vulnerability-in-hybrid-deployments\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"81285\">server configuration and security<\/a> measures in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The vulnerability we are discussing today, CVE-2025-4387, has been discovered in the Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce plugin. Effectively, it provides a backdoor to attackers wanting to compromise a site&#8217;s server and execute potentially harmful code. Anyone using versions up to, and including, 9.16.0 of this plugin is affected by this vulnerability. Given the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-53059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53059"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73734,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53059\/revisions\/73734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=53059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}