TH Advance Product Search <= 1.1.4 - Missing Authorization to Plugin Settings Change
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.1.5
- Affected Plugin
- Advance Product Search- Voice & Ajax Search for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.1.4- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2022-40218
At a glance
CVE-2022-40218 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Advance Product Search- Voice & Ajax Search for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.4. 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 1.1.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2022, reported by Rasi Afeef.
Vulnerability Overview
The TH Advance Product Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the thaps_form_setting function accessible via a nopriv AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.1.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the plugin's settings.
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
Reaching this weakness in Advance Product Search- Voice & Ajax Search for WooCommerce <= 1.1.4 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 Advance Product Search- Voice & Ajax Search for WooCommerce the fix is 1.1.5: builds <= 1.1.4 are affected, anything from 1.1.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.1.5, 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: Advance Product Search- Voice & Ajax Search for WooCommerce 1.1.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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