CVE-2024-12402 Auth bypass in TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce
Unauthenticated attackers can change arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, leading to account takeover and privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12402?
CVE-2024-12402 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in themescoder TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Themes Coder – Create Android & iOS Apps For Your Woocommerce Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the update_user_profile() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Weakness: CWE-288
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12402?
How do I fix CVE-2024-12402?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2024-12402 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12402 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mhjf-ch2g-f5c3.