# CVE-2024-11423: Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce <= 3.0.6 - Missing Authorization to Infinite Money Glitch

> Unauthenticated attackers can modify gift card balances via REST API endpoints due to missing capability checks in the Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 20 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-27hg-cw87-7chh

## What is CVE-2024-11423?

CVE-2024-11423 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in WP Swings Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro, published on 8 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce – Create WooCommerce Gift Cards, Gift Vouchers, Redeem & Manage Digital Gift Coupons. Offer Gift Certificates, Schedule Gift Cards, and Use Advance Coupons With Personalized Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several REST API endpoints such as /wp-json/gifting/recharge-giftcard in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to recharge a gift card balance, without making a payment along with reducing gift card balances without purchasing anything.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11423?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-11423?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11423 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-11423 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11423 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce <= 3.0.6 - Missing Authorization to Infinite Money Glitch (github_poc): https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2024-11423

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-11423 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-11423 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in WP Swings Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro, published on 8 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11423 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: WP Swings Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro. 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-2024-11423/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11423/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11423
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11423
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11423

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11423/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.