CVE-2025-14073: WooCommerce PayPal Payments IDOR in enqueue_paypal_insights_script_on_order_received

CVE-2025-14073 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.3 · Published 2026-08-01

The WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin for WordPress, which handles payment processing for online stores, contains a security flaw that allows unauthorized access to order data. An attacker can exploit this to obtain sensitive customer information, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses, shortly after a purchase is made. This could lead to privacy breaches and potential targeted phishing attacks against recent customers.

Vendors: WooCommerce.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-14073 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-14073 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-14073?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 1 August 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
WooCommerce PayPal Payments up to, and including, 3.3.2.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-14073?
No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2025-14073 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-14073?
Check whether you run WooCommerce PayPal Payments at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

The WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) classified as CWE-639. The flaw exists within the `enqueue_paypal_insights_script_on_order_received()` function due to a lack of validation on a user-controlled key. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this to retrieve sensitive order keys. These keys can subsequently be used to query the WooCommerce Store API to access full customer billing details, provided the request is made within a 10-minute grace period following the order's creation. The issue is addressed in version 3.4.0.

Affected products

  • WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments up to, and including, 3.3.2

Timeline

  • 2026-08-01: advisory: Wordfence published the vulnerability details.
  • 2026-08-01: disclosed: CVE-2025-14073 published to NVD.

References

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