CVE-2024-32691

Active Products Tables for WooCommerce <= 1.0.6.2 - Missing Authorization

2024-04-19 00:00
Dhabaleshwar Das

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.0.6.3
Affected Plugin
Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE 
Affected Version
<= 1.0.6.2
CVSS
6.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-32691
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At a glance

CVE-2024-32691 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.6.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.6.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Dhabaleshwar Das.

Vulnerability Overview

The Active Products Tables for WooCommerce. Use constructor to create tables plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the get_smth() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.6.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to import and export tables.

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

Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE <= 1.0.6.2 carries this weakness at get_smth(), and reaching it 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 Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE the fix is 1.0.6.3: builds <= 1.0.6.2 are affected, anything from 1.0.6.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.0.6.3, 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: Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE 1.0.6.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32691https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1813aaca-3d5a-4650-8a8d-6b54311670f4https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32691

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