CVE-2024-37509: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Maksekeskus AS MakeCommerce for WooCommerce plugin, affecting all versions up to and including 3.5.1. The vulnerability was discovered by Le Ngoc Anh and was publicly disclosed on July 4, 2024. This security issue is tracked as CVE-2024-37509 (Patchstack, WPScan).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin. The severity of this vulnerability has been assessed with different CVSS scores: NIST NVD rates it as 6.1 (MEDIUM) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Patchstack assigns it a score of 7.1 (HIGH) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (NVD, Patchstack).

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that will execute when users perform specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link. This could enable attackers to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads that would be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.5.2 of the MakeCommerce for WooCommerce plugin. Users are advised to update to version 3.5.2 or later immediately. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).