Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS): A security weakness
Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS) is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS)
- Plugin slug
oliver-pos- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 29, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Feb 29, 2024 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS) 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 Oliver POS – A WooCommerce Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to missing capability checks on several functions hooked via AJAX in the includes/class-pos-bridge-install.php file in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2.1 This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform several unauthorized actions like deactivating the plugin, disconnecting the subscription, syncing the status and more.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L