CVE-2024-12432
Published: 18 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-12432 is a high-severity Use of Insufficiently Random Values (CWE-330) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 44.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50853
Vulnerability details
The WPC Shop as a Customer for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to account takeover and privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to the 'generate_key' function not producing a sufficiently random value.…
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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to log in as site administrators, granted they have triggered the ajax_login() function which generates a unique key that can be used to log in.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Key generation under controlled management uses approved random-bit sources rather than insufficiently random values.