MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 4.2.0 - Missing Authorization to Limited Vendor Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-8289
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published September 3, 2024
Last Updated September 4, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation/de-escalation and account takeover due to an insufficient capability check on the update_item_permissions_check and create_item_permissions_check functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the password of any user with the vendor role, create new users with the vendor role, and demote other users like administrators to the vendor role.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.2.0
Patched Version
  • 4.2.1
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