WP eCommerce <= 3.15.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Creation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-1516
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published February 27, 2024
Last Updated February 28, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The WP eCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary post creation due to a missing capability check on the check_for_saas_push() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary posts with arbitrary content.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-e-commerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.15.1
Patched Version
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