CVE-2024-33566

OrderConvo <= 12.4 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary File Upload

2024-04-25 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 12.5
Affected Plugin: OrderConvo – Vendor & Customer Messages After Orders
Affected Version: <= 12.4
CVSS: 9.8Critical
Weakness type: CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE: CVE-2024-33566

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At a glance

CVE-2024-33566 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the OrderConvo WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 12.4. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 12.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Rafie Muhammad.

Vulnerability Overview

The Admin and Customer Messages After Order for WooCommerce: OrderConvo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on a REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 12.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in OrderConvo <= 12.4 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For OrderConvo the fix is 12.5: builds <= 12.4 are affected, anything from 12.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 12.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: OrderConvo 12.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-33566 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6686b67-8648-4f1b-8e05-fa67db60c8aa https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33566

Related records

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CVSS Vector

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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