Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce <= 3.7.9 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Order Status Modification

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-4040
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published August 17, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the eh_callback_handler function in versions up to, and including, 3.7.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the order status of arbitrary WooCommerce orders.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug payment-gateway-stripe-and-woocommerce-integration (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 3.7.9 - 3.7.9
Patched Version
  • 3.8.0
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