WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce <= 1.2.8 - Authentication Bypass Due to Insufficiently Unique Key
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.9
- Affected Plugin
- WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.8- CVSS
- 8.1High
- Weakness type
- CWE-330 · Use of Insufficiently Random Values
- CVE
CVE-2024-12432
At a glance
CVE-2024-12432 is a high-severity Use of Insufficiently Random Values vulnerability in the WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.8. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by Thanh Nam Tran.
Vulnerability Overview
The WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to account takeover and privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to the 'generate_key' function not producing a sufficiently random value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to log in as site administrators, granted they have triggered the ajax_login() function which generates a unique key that can be used to log in.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values
The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.9, 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: WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce 1.2.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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