CVE-2024-13370

Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress <= 1.3.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Options Update (save_addon_key_license)

2025-01-24 18:53
Stiofan

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.4
Affected Plugin
Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress
Affected Version
<= 1.3.3
CVSS
6.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-13370
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At a glance

CVE-2024-13370 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Youzify WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.3. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Stiofan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the save_addon_key_license() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options to a value of a valid license key.

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 integrity.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Youzify <= 1.3.3 carries this weakness at save_addon_key_license(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. 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 Youzify the fix is 1.3.4: builds <= 1.3.3 are affected, anything from 1.3.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.4, 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: Youzify 1.3.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13370https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f234d676-86ac-47ab-b8b3-b0459cbb4538https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13370

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