myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce – Give Points, Ranks, Badges, Cashback, WooCommerce rewards, and WooCommerce credits for Gamification <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Database Upgrade

2024-09-24 00:00

Kévin Mosbahi (Mika)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.7.4

Affected PluginPoints Management System For Gamification, Ranks, Badges, and Loyalty Rewards Program – myCred

Affected Version<= 2.7.3

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-8658

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Vulnerability Overview

The myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce – Give Points, Ranks, Badges, Cashback, WooCommerce rewards, and WooCommerce credits for Gamification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the mycred_update_database() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upgrade an out of date database.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.7.4, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8658 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20be9a37-9e9f-4791-a27c-e0db007be787

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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