CVE-2024-6799 Missing authorization in YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1
Authenticated subscribers can install, activate, or deactivate specific YITH plugins due to missing capability checks in the WooCommerce Essential Kit.
- 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-2024-6799?
CVE-2024-6799 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in yithemes YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1, published on 19 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The YITH Essential Kit for WooCommerce #1 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'activate_module', 'deactivate_module', and 'install_module' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.34.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install, activate, and deactivate plugins from a pre-defined list of available YITH plugins.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6799?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Yithemes Yith Essential Kit for Woocommerce.
How do I fix CVE-2024-6799?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6799 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-2024-6799 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6799 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2w8v-rcqr-7wxj.