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CVE-2024-22155
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Automattic WooCommerce affecting versions through 8.5.2. The vulnerability was reported by Dhabaleshwar Das and publicly disclosed on April 5, 2024. WooCommerce, a popular WordPress e-commerce plugin, addressed this security issue in version 8.6.0 (Patchstack, WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium). The CVSS vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, indicating that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow attackers to make logged-in users perform unwanted actions via CSRF attacks. The plugin lacks CSRF checks in certain areas, which could potentially lead to unauthorized actions being executed under the context of authenticated users (WPScan).

Exploitability

The vulnerability is classified as having low attack complexity and requires user interaction for successful exploitation. It can be exploited remotely but has been assessed as having a low priority for patching due to its limited impact potential (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in WooCommerce version 8.6.0. Users are advised to update to this version or later to remove the vulnerability. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

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