CVE-2024-34370
Published: 17 May 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-34370 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Wpfactory Ean For Woocommerce. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2024-34370 is an improper privilege management flaw, tracked under CWE-269, in the WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce WordPress plugin. It permits privilege escalation and affects all versions through 4.8.9, with a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.2 reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
An authenticated attacker with high privileges can exploit the issue over the network to perform arbitrary option updates. This grants the ability to escalate privileges and obtain full administrative control over the WordPress site.
Public advisories published by Patchstack explicitly frame the flaw as an arbitrary option update vulnerability that leads to privilege escalation in the affected plugin.
EPSS remains flat at 0.1049 with no observed rise after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-34742
Vulnerability details
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects EAN for WooCommerce: from n/a through 4.8.9.
- 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.
Policy addresses roles, responsibilities, and privilege management to prevent improper privilege assignments.
Access supervision ensures privileges are assigned and managed without improper escalation or retention.
Assigning group/role memberships and access authorizations (privileges) while reviewing accounts addresses improper privilege management.
Enforces proper privilege management by requiring all decisions through the verified reference monitor.
By mandating division of duties across roles, the control enforces proper privilege management and prevents a single entity from controlling an entire sensitive process.
Implements core proper privilege management by restricting to only required rights.
Policy requires training on privilege management and least privilege, making it harder to exploit improper privilege management weaknesses.
Training covers proper privilege management practices, making incorrect privilege assignments less likely.