WooCommerce Cloak Affiliate Links <= 1.0.33 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Permalink Modification
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.34
- Affected Plugin
- Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.33- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
- CVE
CVE-2024-1308
At a glance
CVE-2024-1308 is a high-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.33. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.34; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Francesco Carlucci.
Vulnerability Overview
The WooCommerce Cloak Affiliate Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'permalink_settings_save' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.33. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the affiliate permalink base, driving traffic to malicious sites via the plugin's affiliate links.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce <= 1.0.33 carries this weakness at permalink_settings_save, and reaching it takes no account at all. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.
Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce the fix is 1.0.34: builds <= 1.0.33 are affected, anything from 1.0.34 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.34, 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: Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce 1.0.34 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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