WooCommerce Payments 4.8.0 - 5.6.1 Authentication Bypass and Privilege Escalation

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2023-28121
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published March 23, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher mikemyers
Description

The WooCommerce Payments plugin is vulnerable to authentication bypass via the determine_current_user_for_platform_checkout function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to impersonate arbitrary users and perform some actions as the impersonated user, which can lead to site takeover.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug woocommerce-payments (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 4.8.0 - 5.6.1
Patched Version
  • 5.6.2
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