YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1 <= 2.34.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Plugin Install, Activation, and Deactivation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-6799
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 18, 2024
Last Updated July 19, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'activate_module', 'deactivate_module', and 'install_module' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.34.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install, activate, and deactivate plugins from a pre-defined list of available YITH plugins.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug yith-essential-kit-for-woocommerce-1 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.34.0
Patched Version
  • 2.35.0
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