CVE-2024-6637

WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.7.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via One-Time Password

2024-07-19 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.7.4
Affected Plugin: WooCommerce - Social Login
Affected Version: <= 2.7.3
CVSS: 7.3High
Weakness type: CWE-305 · Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
CVE: CVE-2024-6637

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At a glance

CVE-2024-6637 is a high-severity Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness vulnerability in the WooCommerce - Social Login WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.7.3. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.7.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2024, reported by Vu Nguyen (maxntv).

Vulnerability Overview

The WooCommerce - Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This is due to a lack of brute force controls on a weak one-time password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to brute force the one-time password for any user, except an Administrator, if they know the email of user.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-305: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.

Remediation

Update to version 2.7.4, 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: WooCommerce - Social Login 2.7.4 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-2024-6637 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10d92d5e-1c23-4f6a-bfab-0756876190a5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6637

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in WooCommerce - Social Login

CVSS Vector

7.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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