WooCommerce Chained Products < 2.12.0 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update

9.1
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-4872
CVSS 9.1 (Critical)
Publicly Published January 4, 2023
Last Updated January 10, 2023
Researcher WPScanTeam

Description

The WooCommerce Chained Products plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check when updating its settings in versions up to, and including, 2.12.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options that may not belong to the plugin. However, update of options is limited to the value "no".

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Vulnerability Details for WooCommerce Chained Products

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug woocommerce-chained-products
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.12.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.12.0
Patched Version
  • 2.12.0

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