Soisy Pagamento Rateale <= 6.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 6.0.2
- Affected Plugin
- Soisy Pagamento Rateale
- Affected Version
<= 6.0.1- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2023-5132
At a glance
CVE-2023-5132 is a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Soisy Pagamento Rateale WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.0.1. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 6.0.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2023, reported by Francesco Carlucci.
Vulnerability Overview
The Soisy Pagamento Rateale plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the parseRemoteRequest function in versions up to, and including, 6.0.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers with knowledge of an existing WooCommerce Order ID to expose sensitive WooCommerce order information (e.g., Name, Address, Email Address, and other order metadata).
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Soisy Pagamento Rateale <= 6.0.1 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 Soisy Pagamento Rateale the fix is 6.0.2: builds <= 6.0.1 are affected, anything from 6.0.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 6.0.2, 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: Soisy Pagamento Rateale 6.0.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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