WP Customer Area <= 8.2.1 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Address Modification

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2023-6741
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 10, 2024
Last Updated February 6, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The WP Customer Area plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_address_for_owner function in all versions up to, and including, 8.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify addresses for other owners.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug customer-area (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.2.0
Patched Version
  • 8.2.1
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