WCFM Membership – WooCommerce Memberships for Multivendor Marketplace: A security weakness

WCFM Membership – WooCommerce Memberships for Multivendor Marketplace 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.

CVE / CNA score 9.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com

NVD score 9.8 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: WCFM Membership – WooCommerce Memberships for Multivendor Marketplace
Plugin slug: wc-multivendor-membership
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: May 20, 2023
Weakness: CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

This CVE was published May 20, 2023 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update WCFM Membership – WooCommerce Memberships for Multivendor Marketplace 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.

Source record

Technical description

The WCFM Membership – WooCommerce Memberships for Multivendor Marketplace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References in versions up to, and including, 2.10.7. This is due to the plugin providing user-controlled access to objects, letting a user bypass authorization and access system resources. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change user passwords and potentially take over administrator accounts.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources