CVE-2024-43134
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was identified in the xootix Waitlist Woocommerce (Back in stock notifier) plugin affecting versions up to 2.6. The vulnerability was discovered by Abdi Pranata and was disclosed on August 7, 2024, receiving the identifier CVE-2024-43134 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium), and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The issue stems from missing authorization checks that could allow users with subscriber-level privileges to perform actions intended for higher-privileged users (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability has a low severity impact on affected systems. It allows unprivileged users to execute certain higher-privileged actions due to the broken access control implementation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.6.1 of the Waitlist Woocommerce plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.6.1 or later to remediate the security issue. Patchstack users can enable auto-update functionality for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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