# 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.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j4g8-8jw2-7ww9

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality), CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8277?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2024-8277 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8277 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8277 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8277 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: villatheme WooCommerce Photo Reviews Premium. 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-2024-8277/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8277/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8277
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8277
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8277

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8277/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.