YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1 <= 2.34.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Plugin Install, Activation, and Deactivation

2024-07-18 00:00

Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.35.0

Affected PluginYITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1

Affected Version<= 2.34.0

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-6799

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Vulnerability Overview

The YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'activate_module', 'deactivate_module', and 'install_module' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.34.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install, activate, and deactivate plugins from a pre-defined list of available YITH plugins.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.35.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6799 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca497ffa-6306-46dc-895f-94f1d5236e28

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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