Woocommerce Customers Manager <= 26.4 - Authenticated Account Creation and Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 26.5
- Affected Plugin
- WooCommerce Customers Manager
- Affected Version
< 26.5- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a high-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the WooCommerce Customers Manager WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 26.5. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 26.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2021, reported by John Castro.
Vulnerability Overview
The Woocommerce Customers Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability checks in the user import in versions up to, and including, 26.4. This makes it possible for Subscriber-level attackers to import arbitrary user information to create or update administrative accounts.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Remediation
Update to version 26.5, 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: WooCommerce Customers Manager 26.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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