Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.0.18
- Affected Plugin
- Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code
- Affected Version
< 3.0.18- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-52475
At a glance
CVE-2024-52475 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Automation Web Platform WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 3.0.18. 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 3.0.18; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by stealthcopter.
Vulnerability Overview
The Wawp OTP Verification, Order Notifications, and Country Code Selector for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to 3.0.18 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain access to administrator accounts.
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 Automation Web Platform < 3.0.18 takes no account at all. 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 Automation Web Platform the fix is 3.0.18: builds < 3.0.18 are affected, anything from 3.0.18 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.0.18, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Automation Web Platform 3.0.18 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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