CVE-2024-5669 Missing authorization in Happy WooCommerce FAQs – Ultimate Product FAQ Plugin
Authenticated subscribers can inject stored XSS due to missing capability checks in the WooCommerce FAQ plugin, affecting dashboard and FAQ views.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-5669?
CVE-2024-5669 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in happydevs Happy WooCommerce FAQs – Ultimate Product FAQ Plugin, published on 9 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The XPlainer – WooCommerce Product FAQ [WooCommerce Accordion FAQ Plugin] plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ffw_activate_template' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to store cross-site scripting that will trigger when viewing the dashboard templates or accessing FAQs.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5669?
How do I fix CVE-2024-5669?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5669 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-5669 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5669 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8r62-cqj8-532j.