CVE-2024-2298

affiliate-toolkit – WordPress Affiliate Plugin <= 3.5.4 - Missing Authorization via atkp_import_product

2024-03-07 00:00
Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.5.5
Affected Plugin
affiliate-toolkit – Multi-Network Affiliate & Amazon Product Display
Affected Version
<= 3.5.4
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-2298
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At a glance

CVE-2024-2298 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the affiliate-toolkit WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.5.4. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 3.5.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The affiliate-toolkit – WordPress Affiliate Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the atkp_import_product() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to to perform unauthorized actions such as creating importing products.

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 interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

affiliate-toolkit <= 3.5.4 carries this weakness at atkp_import_product(), and reaching it 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 affiliate-toolkit the fix is 3.5.5: builds <= 3.5.4 are affected, anything from 3.5.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.5.5, 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: affiliate-toolkit 3.5.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2298https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d4d0176-3b7d-4de5-95ec-365873e6f13bhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2298

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