CVE-2025-8570 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the BeyondCart Connector plugin for WordPress, affecting versions 1.4.2 through 2.1.0. This flaw stems from improper management of JSON Web Token (JWT) secrets, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge valid tokens and impersonate any user on an affected WordPress site. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyondcart | BeyondCart Connector | >= 0, <= 3.0.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.