Variation Swatches for WooCommerce 1.0.8 - 1.3.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Reset
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3.3
- Affected Plugin
- Variation Swatches for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
1.0.8 – 1.3.2- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2024-13511
At a glance
CVE-2024-13511 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Variation Swatches for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions 1.0.8 – 1.3.2. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by lucky_buddy.
Vulnerability Overview
The Variation Swatches for WooCommerce plugin, in all versions starting at 1.0.8 up until 1.3.2, contains a vulnerability due to improper nonce verification in its settings reset functionality. The issue exists in the settings_init() function, which processes a reset action based on specific query parameters in the URL. The related delete_settings() function performs a faulty nonce validation check, making the reset operation insecure and susceptible to unauthorized access.
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.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Variation Swatches for WooCommerce 1.0.8 – 1.3.2 carries this weakness at settings_init(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Variation Swatches for WooCommerce the fix is 1.3.3: builds 1.0.8 – 1.3.2 are affected, anything from 1.3.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Variation Swatches for WooCommerce: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Variation Swatches for WooCommerce 1.3.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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