Woocommerce Category Banner Management <= 1.1.0 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.1.1
- Affected Plugin
- Banner Management For WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.1.0- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2018-11579
At a glance
CVE-2018-11579 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Banner Management For WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.0. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2018, reported by Jack K..
Vulnerability Overview
class-woo-banner-management.php in the MULTIDOTS WooCommerce Category Banner Management plugin 1.1.0 for WordPress has an Unauthenticated Settings Change Vulnerability, related to certain wp_ajax_nopriv_ usage. Anyone can change the plugin's setting by simply sending a request with a wbm_save_shop_page_banner_data action.
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.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Banner Management For WooCommerce <= 1.1.0 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 Banner Management For WooCommerce the fix is 1.1.1: builds <= 1.1.0 are affected, anything from 1.1.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.1.1, 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: Banner Management For WooCommerce 1.1.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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