CVE-2025-24606

Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices – Easy Estimates and Invoices <= 20.8.1 - Missing Authorization

2024-12-22 00:00
Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 20.8.2
Affected Plugin
Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates
Affected Version
<= 20.8.1
CVSS
5.0Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2025-24606
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At a glance

CVE-2025-24606 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Sprout Invoices WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 20.8.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.0 (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 20.8.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc).

Vulnerability Overview

The Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices – Easy Estimates and Invoices for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the maybe_change_status() function in all versions up to, and including, 20.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change invoice statuses.

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

Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.1 carries this weakness at maybe_change_status(), 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 Sprout Invoices the fix is 20.8.2: builds <= 20.8.1 are affected, anything from 20.8.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 20.8.2, 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: Sprout Invoices 20.8.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24606https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/42106dad-c568-4a79-af56-2d714dd8f487https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24606

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