CVE-2024-1044

Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review

2024-02-06 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 5.39.0
Affected Plugin: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce
Affected Version: <= 5.38.12
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
CVE: CVE-2024-1044

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At a glance

CVE-2024-1044 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.38.12. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.39.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Francesco Carlucci.

Vulnerability Overview

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'submit_review' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.38.12. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit reviews with arbitrary email addresses regardless of whether reviews are globally enabled.

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-284: Improper Access Control

Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.12 carries this weakness at submit_review, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.

Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Customer Reviews for WooCommerce the fix is 5.39.0: builds <= 5.38.12 are affected, anything from 5.39.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.39.0, 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: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce 5.39.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1044 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4420c334-1ea4-4549-b391-150702abc2f8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1044

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CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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