WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program <= 8.4.1 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

9.8
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2024-9289
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published September 30, 2024
Last Updated October 1, 2024
Researcher Tonn

Description

The WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.1. This is due to the rtwwwap_login_request_callback() function not properly validating a user's identity prior to authenticating them to the site. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including administrators, granted they have access to the administrator's email.

Wordfence blocked 22 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-wc-affiliate-program
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 8.5.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 8.4.1
Patched Version
  • 8.5.0

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