WooCommerce Shipping – DPD baltic <= 1.2.54 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Deletion
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.57
- Affected Plugin
- DPD Baltic Shipping
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.56- CVSS
- 5.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2022-3999
At a glance
CVE-2022-3999 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the DPD Baltic Shipping WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.56. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (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 1.2.57; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2022, reported by István Márton.
Vulnerability Overview
The WooCommerce Shipping – DPD baltic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the delete_warehouse AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.2.54. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as a subscriber, to delete arbitrary options and cause a denial of service.
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
Reaching this weakness in DPD Baltic Shipping <= 1.2.56 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 DPD Baltic Shipping the fix is 1.2.57: builds <= 1.2.56 are affected, anything from 1.2.57 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.57, 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: DPD Baltic Shipping 1.2.57 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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