WebToffee Plugins <= (Various Versions) - Arbitrary User Creation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3.1
- Affected Plugin
- Order XML File Export Import for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
< 1.3.1- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2020-12074
At a glance
CVE-2020-12074 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Order XML File Export Import for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.3.1. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). The issue is fixed in version 1.3.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2020, reported by Chloe Chamberland.
Vulnerability Overview
The users-customers-import-export-for-wp-woocommerce plugin (and other Webtoffee plugins) before 1.3.9 for WordPress allows subscribers to import administrative accounts via CSV.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Order XML File Export Import for WooCommerce < 1.3.1 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 Order XML File Export Import for WooCommerce the fix is 1.3.1: builds < 1.3.1 are affected, anything from 1.3.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3.1, 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: Order XML File Export Import for WooCommerce 1.3.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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