cozyvision1 SMS Alert Order Notifications Plugin up to 3.7.6 on WordPress Setting updateWcWarrantySettings authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in cozyvision1 SMS Alert Order Notifications Plugin up to 3.7.6 on WordPress. Affected is the function updateWcWarrantySettings of the component Setting Handler. Such manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-11725. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in cozyvision1 SMS Alert Order Notifications Plugin up to 3.7.6 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is the function updateWcWarrantySettings of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the updateWcWarrantySettings() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site. Please note this requires the woocommerce-warranty plugin to be installed in order to be exploited.

The weakness was disclosed by Amrawad. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-11725 since 11/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/07/2025).

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

VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Productinfo

Type

• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• cozyvision1

Name

• SMS Alert Order Notifications Plugin

Version

• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2
• 3.7.3
• 3.7.4
• 3.7.5
• 3.7.6

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Discussion