WC Affiliate – A Complete WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin <= 2.5.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure via wf-export-all
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.6
- Affected Plugin
- WC Affiliate – WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin
- Affected Version
<= 2.5.3- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-12336
At a glance
CVE-2024-12336 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the WC Affiliate WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.5.3. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Thanh Nam Tran.
Vulnerability Overview
The WC Affiliate – A Complete WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'export_all_data' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to expose sensitive affiliate data, including personally identifiable information (PII).
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
WC Affiliate <= 2.5.3 carries this weakness at export_all_data, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. 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 WC Affiliate the fix is 2.6: builds <= 2.5.3 are affected, anything from 2.6 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.6, 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: WC Affiliate 2.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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