CVE-2024-33549

WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin < 14.1.00 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

2024-04-25 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 14.1.00
Affected Plugin: WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin
Affected Version: < 14.1.00
CVSS: 8.8High
Weakness type: CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE: CVE-2024-33549

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At a glance

CVE-2024-33549 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 14.1.00. 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 at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 14.1.00; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Rafie Muhammad.

Vulnerability Overview

The WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and excluding, 14.1.00. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges.

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-269: Improper Privilege Management

Reaching this weakness in WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin < 14.1.00 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.

It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin the fix is 14.1.00: builds < 14.1.00 are affected, anything from 14.1.00 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 14.1.00, 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 Amazon Affiliates - Wordpress Plugin 14.1.00 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-2024-33549 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d5b110a5-4027-4c98-a348-325c8b9c8405 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33549

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CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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