CVE-2024-37277

Paid Memberships Pro <= 3.0.4 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference to Order Status Update

2024-06-28 00:00
Rafie Muhammad

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.0.5
Affected Plugin
Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions
Affected Version
<= 3.0.4
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2024-37277
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At a glance

CVE-2024-37277 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.0.4. 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 3.0.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by Rafie Muhammad.

Vulnerability Overview

The Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 via the pmpro_twocheckoutValidate function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update an order status to paid.

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-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in Paid Memberships Pro <= 3.0.4 takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Paid Memberships Pro the fix is 3.0.5: builds <= 3.0.4 are affected, anything from 3.0.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.0.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Paid Memberships Pro 3.0.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37277https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4a5a118d-54a2-4e15-a629-4759c34f62b4https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37277

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