WooCommerce Point of Sale <= 6.1.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary User Email Change

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-11281
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 24, 2024
Last Updated December 25, 2024
Researcher Tonn
Description

The WooCommerce Point of Sale plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.0. This is due to insufficient validation on the 'logged_in_user_id' value when option values are empty and the ability for attackers to change the email of arbitrary user accounts. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the email of arbitrary user accounts, including administrators, and reset their password to gain access to the account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug woo-point-of-sale (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.1.0
Patched Version
  • 6.2.0
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