Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS) <= 2.4.2.1 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.4.2.1
- Affected Plugin
- Oliver POS – WooCommerce POS for iPhone, iPad & Android
- Affected Version
<= 2.4.2.0- CVSS
- 7.3High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-0702
At a glance
CVE-2024-0702 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Oliver POS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.4.2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.4.2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Francesco Carlucci.
Vulnerability Overview
The Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to missing capability checks on several functions hooked via AJAX in the includes/class-pos-bridge-install.php file in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2.1 This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform several unauthorized actions like deactivating the plugin, disconnecting the subscription, syncing the status and more.
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 Oliver POS <= 2.4.2.0 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 Oliver POS the fix is 2.4.2.1: builds <= 2.4.2.0 are affected, anything from 2.4.2.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.4.2.1, 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: Oliver POS 2.4.2.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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