# CVE-2022-0837: Amelia < 1.0.48 - Customer+ SMS Service Abuse and Sensitive Data Disclosure

> Unauthenticated users can abuse SMS services to drain account balances and access sensitive admin data in the Amelia WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Apr 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q554-r63m-vh57

## What is CVE-2022-0837?

CVE-2022-0837 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Amelia, published on 4 Apr 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Amelia WordPress plugin before 1.0.48 does not have proper authorisation when handling Amelia SMS service, allowing any customer to send paid test SMS notification as well as retrieve sensitive information about the admin, such as the email, account balance and payment history. A malicious actor can abuse this vulnerability to drain out the account balance by keep sending SMS notification.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0837?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Tms-Outsource Amelia.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0837?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0837 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0837 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0837 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Amelia

- [CVE-2022-0687](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0687/): Amelia < 1.0.46 - Manager+ RCE (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-29427](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29427/): WordPress Amelia Plugin <= 1.0.75 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2023-50860](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50860/): WordPress Amelia Plugin <= 1.0.85 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-6808](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6808/): Cross-site scripting in Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar – Amelia (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2023-27918](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-27918/): Cross-site scripting in Appointment and Event Booking Calendar for WordPress - Amelia (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0837 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0837 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Amelia, published on 4 Apr 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0837 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Amelia. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0837/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0837/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0837
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0837
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0837

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0837/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.