myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards: A security weakness
myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards 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
- myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards
- Plugin slug
mycred- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 25, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Sep 25, 2024 and is one of 28 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards 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 myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce – Give Points, Ranks, Badges, Cashback, WooCommerce rewards, and WooCommerce credits for Gamification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the mycred_update_database() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upgrade an out of date database.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N