CVE-2024-0797

Active Products Tables for WooCommerce. Professional products tables for WooCommerce store <= 1.0.6.1 - Missing Authorization

2024-01-31 00:00
Francesco Carlucci

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.0.6.2
Affected Plugin
Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE 
Affected Version
<= 1.0.6.1
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-0797
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At a glance

CVE-2024-0797 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.6.1. 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 1.0.6.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2024, reported by Francesco Carlucci.

Vulnerability Overview

The Active Products Tables for WooCommerce. Professional products tables for WooCommerce store plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on several functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.6.1. This makes it possible for subscribers and higher to execute functions intended for admin use.

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-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE <= 1.0.6.1 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 Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE the fix is 1.0.6.2: builds <= 1.0.6.1 are affected, anything from 1.0.6.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.0.6.2, 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 1.0.6.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0797https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a94841f-b1dd-44f4-b7a1-65a9fdf7b18dhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0797

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