CVE-2024-8277
Published: 11 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-8277 is a critical-severity Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (CWE-288) vulnerability in Villatheme Woocommerce Photo Reviews. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 2.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The WooCommerce Photo Reviews Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to and including 1.3.13.2. The flaw arises because the plugin fails to validate the user transient supplied to its login() function and does not verify the caller's identity, enabling misuse of WordPress transients that store user IDs. The vulnerability carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 and is associated with CWE-288 and CWE-306.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue over the network to obtain a valid session as any user who dismissed an administrative notice in the preceding 30 days, a population that commonly includes administrators. A secondary, harder-to-leverage path permits login as arbitrary users when a transient containing a valid user_id value can be identified or supplied.
The current and peak EPSS score of 0.5214 reflects a material probability of exploitation, though the value has not risen from a low baseline after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-49061
Vulnerability details
The WooCommerce Photo Reviews Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.13.2. This is due to the plugin not properly validating what user transient is being used in the login() function…
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and not properly verifying the user's identity. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as user that has dismissed an admin notice in the past 30 days, which is often an administrator. Alternatively, a user can log in as any user with any transient that has a valid user_id as the value, though it would be more difficult to exploit this successfully.
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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.
Mandates additional authentication for access under defined conditions, ensuring critical or high-risk functions are not left without authentication.
Identity providers mandate authentication for functions that would otherwise lack it.
Requires authentication for non-organizational users, preventing access to critical functions without proper identification and authentication.
Requires established identification and authentication to unlock, mitigating missing authentication for continued system access.
Requiring identification and rationale for actions allowed without authentication ensures critical functions are not left unprotected by forcing review of authentication requirements.
Authorizing remote access reduces the ability to bypass authentication via unauthorized alternate remote channels.
Authorizing mobile device connections to organizational systems ensures authentication is performed for this critical access function.
Guarantees critical functions are protected by mandatory invocation of the access control mechanism.