wecantrack Affiliate Links Plugin up to 3.0.1 on WordPress authorization

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in wecantrack Affiliate Links Plugin up to 3.0.1 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-13556. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in wecantrack Affiliate Links Plugin up to 3.0.1 on WordPress. This issue affects some unknown processing. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Affiliate Links: WordPress Plugin for Link Cloaking and Link Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1 via deserialization of untrusted input from an file export. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present.

The weakness was disclosed by Lucio Sá. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-13556 since 01/20/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/18/2025).

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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• Advertising Software

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• wecantrack

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• Affiliate Links Plugin

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• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1

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