Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart <= 6.10.22 - Insufficient Access Control on Multiple AJAX Actions

2022-07-09 00:00
Anonymous

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.10.23
Affected Plugin
Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart
Affected Version
<= 6.10.22
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.10.22. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 6.10.23; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2022.

Vulnerability Overview

The Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insufficient Access Control on Multiple AJAX Actions in versions up to, and including, 6.10.22. This allows any authenticated user to perform multiple AJAX actions including creating product and category pages as well as changing, publishing, and unpublishing the storefront page.

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-285: Improper Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart <= 6.10.22 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.

A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart the fix is 6.10.23: builds <= 6.10.22 are affected, anything from 6.10.23 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.10.23, 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: Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart 6.10.23 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d8a12e1d-f46a-499e-bfd6-185d5b955071

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