CVE-2024-1310

WooCommerce <= 8.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Private/Draft Product Disclosure

2024-03-25 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 8.6
Affected Plugin: WooCommerce
Affected Version: < 8.6
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-1310

At a glance

CVE-2024-1310 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 8.6. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 8.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Scott Kingsley Clark.

Vulnerability Overview

The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to insufficient restrictions in the product shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 8.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to view private and draft products.

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in WooCommerce < 8.6 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For WooCommerce the fix is 8.6: builds < 8.6 are affected, anything from 8.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 8.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: WooCommerce 8.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1310 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/68eec693-bffe-4f3a-8e76-edf9f13093d4 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1310

CVSS Vector

4.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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