Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce <= 1.7.7 - Subscriber+ Settings Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.7.8
- Affected Plugin
- Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 1.7.7- CVSS
- 6.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2022-28666
At a glance
CVE-2022-28666 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7.7. It carries a CVSS score of 6.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.7.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2022, reported by Tien Nguyen Ahn.
Vulnerability Overview
The WordPress plugin Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce is vulnerable to unauthenticated options update due to lack of authorization in the register_rest_route function in versions up to, and including 1.7.7. This allows an attacker to change the plugin's options.
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.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce <= 1.7.7 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce the fix is 1.7.8: builds <= 1.7.7 are affected, anything from 1.7.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.7.8, 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: Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce 1.7.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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