WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-6636
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published July 19, 2024
Last Updated July 20, 2024
Researcher Vu Nguyen (maxntv)
Description

The WooCommerce - Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'woo_slg_login_email' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the default role to Administrator while registering for an account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug woo-social-login (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.3
Patched Version
  • 2.7.4
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