WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress improper authentication

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in improper authentication. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-12432. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to account takeover and privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to the 'generate_key' function not producing a sufficiently random value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to log in as site administrators, granted they have triggered the ajax_login() function which generates a unique key that can be used to log in.

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-12432 since 12/10/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• E-Commerce Management Software

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• WPC

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• Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce Plugin

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8

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