Critical

Authentication Bypass via JWT Forgery in RestroPress for WordPress

IdentifiersCVE-2025-9209CWE-200· Exposure of Sensitive Information…

CVE-2025-9209 is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the RestroPress – Online Food Ordering System plugin for WordPress in versions 3.0.0 through 3.1.9.2. The issue arises because the plugin exposes sensitive user private tokens and related API data through the publicly accessible /wp-json/wp/v2/users REST API endpoint. Due to insufficient restriction of sensitive user meta fields in REST responses, unauthenticated attackers can enumerate users and retrieve token material that should not be disclosed. With this exposed data, an attacker can forge valid JSON Web Tokens for arbitrary accounts, including administrator accounts, and then authenticate as those users.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and impersonate arbitrary users, including administrators. In practice, this can lead to full administrative access to the affected WordPress site, enabling complete compromise of site content, plugin and theme management, user administration, and any other actions available to the impersonated account.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, restrict unauthenticated access to the WordPress REST API, particularly the /wp-json/wp/v2/users endpoint, and review whether user enumeration and user meta exposure are possible in the current deployment. Monitor for suspicious authentication activity involving forged or unexpected JWT-based sessions, and rotate any exposed token material if feasible. These are temporary risk-reduction measures and do not replace upgrading to a fixed version.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Update the RestroPress plugin to a version newer than 3.1.9.2, as the vulnerable range is 3.0.0 through 3.1.9.2. The underlying issue must be fixed by preventing exposure of private user tokens and related sensitive API data via the WordPress REST API, especially the /wp-json/wp/v2/users endpoint.

PUBLIC EXPLOITS

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VALID 0 / 0 TOTALView more in app

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

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nuclei templates pull requestsNews

Apr 22, 2026

Add CVE-2025-9209 - RestroPress 3.0.0-3.2.1 - Authentication Bypass by Akokonunes · Pull Request #15999 · projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates · GitHub

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the RestroPress plugin caused by JWT forgery, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as arbitrary users including administrators.

zeropath blogNews

Oct 3, 2025

RestroPress WordPress Plugin CVE-2025-9209: Brief Summary of Critical Authentication Bypass - ZeroPath Blog | ZeroPath

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the RestroPress WordPress plugin caused by exposure of sensitive user tokens through a public REST API endpoint, allowing attackers to forge JWTs and gain administrative access.

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