YITH Easy Login & Register Popup for WooCommerce <= 1.8.0 - Authentication Bypass via Password Reset

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2021-39331
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published September 20, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The YITH Easy Login & Register Popup for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass via password reset in versions up to, and including, 1.8.0. This is due to the plugin failing to properly validate if a user is authorized to perform a password reset for the supplied user_login via the yith_welrp_form_action AJAX. This makes it possible for unauthenticated users to reset administrators password and then log in to a site using that account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug yith-easy-login-register-popup-for-woocommerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.0
Patched Version
  • 1.8.1
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