Description

WordPress Plugin WooCommerce Payments-Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently impersonate arbitrary users and perform some actions as the impersonated user, which can lead to site takeover. WordPress Plugin WooCommerce Payments-Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo versions 4.8.0 - 5.6.1 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to plugin versions 4.8.2, 4.9.1, 5.0.4, 5.1.3, 5.2.2, 5.3.1, 5.4.1, 5.5.2, 5.6.2 or latest

References

https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:0F78A245-866C-462E-BD23-43DFADB57072

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/03/psa-update-now-critical-authentication-bypass-in-woocommerce-payments-allows-site-takeover/

https://developer.woocommerce.com/2023/03/23/critical-vulnerability-detected-in-woocommerce-payments-what-you-need-to-know/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/woocommerce-payments/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2023-28121 CWE-269 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass