CVE-2024-43153

Woffice <= 5.4.10 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

2024-08-07 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 5.4.12
Affected Theme: Woffice CRM
Affected Version: <= 5.4.10
CVSS: 9.8Critical
Weakness type: CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE: CVE-2024-43153

At a glance

CVE-2024-43153 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Woffice CRM WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 5.4.10. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.4.12; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2024, reported by Rafie Muhammad.

Vulnerability Overview

The Woffice CRM theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain access to accounts with administrative level access.

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 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-269: Improper Privilege Management

Reaching this weakness in Woffice CRM <= 5.4.10 takes no account at all. 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 Woffice CRM the fix is 5.4.12: builds <= 5.4.10 are affected, anything from 5.4.12 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.4.12, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Woffice CRM 5.4.12 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43153 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02d6e9c3-f040-4a41-a803-4bbe5f86c29b https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43153

Related records

Same weakness class

9.8CVE-2025-2798: Woffice <= 5.4.21 Authentication BypassCVE-2025-2798

Other vulnerabilities in Woffice CRM

CVSS Vector

9.8

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

Base

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

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