Mailchimp for WooCommerce: A security weakness
Mailchimp for WooCommerce is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Mailchimp for WooCommerce
- Plugin slug
mailchimp-for-woocommerce- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 29, 2022
This CVE was published Aug 29, 2022 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Mailchimp for WooCommerce 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 Mailchimp for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.7.1 has an AJAX action that allows any logged in users (such as subscriber) to perform a POST request on behalf of the server to the internal network/LAN, the body of the request is also appended to the response so it can be used to scan private network for example
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N