CVE-2024-8277 WooCommerce Photo Reviews Premium <= 1.3.13.2 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation
Unauthenticated attackers can bypass authentication to log in as administrators or other users, 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-2024-8277?
CVE-2024-8277 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in villatheme WooCommerce Photo Reviews Premium, published on 11 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WooCommerce Photo Reviews Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.13.2. This is due to the plugin not properly validating what user transient is being used in the login() function and not properly verifying the user's identity. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as user that has dismissed an admin notice in the past 30 days, which is often an administrator. Alternatively, a user can log in as any user with any transient that has a valid user_id as the value, though it would be more difficult to exploit this successfully.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8277?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Villatheme Woocommerce Photo Reviews.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8277?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8277 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-2024-8277 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8277 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j4g8-8jw2-7ww9.