BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages <= 3.4.19 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.4.20
- Affected Version
<= 3.4.19- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-35726
At a glance
CVE-2024-35726 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.4.19. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (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 3.4.20; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by Abdi Pranata.
Vulnerability Overview
The BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the wc4bp_shop_profile_sync_ajax() function in versions up to, and including, 3.4.19. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to sync shop profiles.
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
BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages <= 3.4.19 carries this weakness at wc4bp_shop_profile_sync_ajax(), 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 BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages the fix is 3.4.20: builds <= 3.4.19 are affected, anything from 3.4.20 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.4.20, 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: BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages 3.4.20 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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