Themes Coder – Create Android & iOS Apps For Your Woocommerce Site <= 1.3.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Password Change/Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.4.0
- Affected Plugin
- TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.3.4- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
- CVE
CVE-2024-12402
At a glance
CVE-2024-12402 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in the TC Ecommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.4. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.4.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Tieu Pham Trong Nhan.
Vulnerability Overview
The Themes Coder – Create Android & iOS Apps For Your Woocommerce Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the update_user_profile() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
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, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
TC Ecommerce <= 1.3.4 carries this weakness at update_user_profile(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authentication bypass through an alternate path means the application has a second route to a protected action that skips the checks the primary route performs.
The protection on the main path becomes irrelevant, because the attacker simply uses the route that never asks. For TC Ecommerce the fix is 1.4.0: builds <= 1.3.4 are affected, anything from 1.4.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.4.0, 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: TC Ecommerce 1.4.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce
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