Finale Woocommerce Sales Countdown Timer Discount: A security weakness
Finale Woocommerce Sales Countdown Timer Discount is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Finale Woocommerce Sales Countdown Timer Discount
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 01, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Mar 01, 2024 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Finale Woocommerce Sales Countdown Timer Discount to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The NextMove Lite – Thank You Page for WooCommerce and Finale Lite – Sales Countdown Timer & Discount for WooCommerce plugins for WordPress are vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the download_tools_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to export system information that can aid attackers in an attack.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2024-1120
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com