Subscriber-level data access and modification via unchecked AJAX
Published Apr 5, 2023 · Updated Jan 13, 2025
Missing authorization in WC Lovers WCFM – Frontend Manager for WooCommerce 6.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to read and alter store data. Hundreds of AJAX action handlers fail to check the caller's capabilities before reading or changing knowledge bases, notices, payments, vendors, and role capabilities. A subscriber account is sufficient to invoke the affected handlers and perform actions reserved for more privileged store roles.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in WC Lovers WCFM – Frontend Manager for WooCommerce 6.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to read and alter store data. Hundreds of AJAX action handlers fail to check the caller's capabilities before reading or changing knowledge bases, notices, payments, vendors, and role capabilities. A subscriber account is sufficient to invoke the affected handlers and perform actions reserved for more privileged store roles.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-4937
- Published
- Apr 5, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 13, 2025
- Vendor
- WC Lovers
- Product
- WCFM – Frontend Manager for WooCommerce
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 5, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.6.0
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