WooCommerce Chained Products < 2.12.0 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2022-4872
CVSS	Critical (9.1)
Publicly Published	January 4, 2023
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	WPScanTeam

Description

The WooCommerce Chained Products plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check when updating its settings in versions up to, and including, 2.12.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options that may not belong to the plugin. However, update of options is limited to the value "no".

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	woocommerce-chained-products (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.12.0
Patched Version	2.12.0

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