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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-37872
CVE-2023-37872:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The vulnerability (CVE-2023-37872) affects WooCommerce Ship to Multiple Addresses plugin versions through 3.8.5. It is classified as a Missing Authorization/Broken Access Control vulnerability that was discovered by Rafie Muhammad and disclosed on July 10, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is rated with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N. It is categorized under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and requires customer-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in specific functions (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been patched in version 3.8.6 of the WooCommerce Ship to Multiple Addresses plugin. Users are advised to update to version 3.8.6 or later immediately. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking any attacks until users update to a fixed version (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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