PayU CommercePro Plugin <= 3.8.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2024-12264
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 6, 2025
Last Updated March 13, 2025
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The PayU CommercePro Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3. This is due to /wp-json/payu/v1/generate-user-token and /wp-json/payu/v1/get-shipping-cost REST API endpoints not properly verifying a user's identity prior to setting the users ID and auth cookies. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrative user accounts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug payu-india (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8.3
Patched Version
  • 3.8.4
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