CVE-2024-13641

Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce <= 4.4.5 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure Through Unprotected Directory

2025-02-13 17:19

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 4.4.6
Affected Plugin: Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce
Affected Version: <= 4.4.5
CVSS: 5.9Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-13641

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At a glance

CVE-2024-13641 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.4.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.9 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.4.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Tim Coen.

Vulnerability Overview

The Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce – Return Management System, RMA Exchange, Wallet And Cancel Order Features plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.5 via the 'attachment' directory. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data stored insecurely in the /wp-content/attachment directory which can contain file attachments for order refunds.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce <= 4.4.5 carries this weakness at attachment, and reaching it takes no account at all. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce the fix is 4.4.6: builds <= 4.4.5 are affected, anything from 4.4.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.4.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Return Refund and Exchange For WooCommerce 4.4.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13641 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f88a21d-28a9-4c91-9bf9-6b69f6a420e8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13641

Related records

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CVSS Vector

5.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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