# CVE-2024-9289: WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program <= 8.4.1 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover and Privilege Escalation

> Unauthenticated attackers can bypass authentication to log in as any user, including administrators, if they know the target's email address.

- **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:** 1 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4gvj-wfph-8c6j

## What is CVE-2024-9289?

CVE-2024-9289 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in RedefiningTheWeb WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program, published on 1 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.1. This is due to the rtwwwap_login_request_callback() function not properly validating a user's identity prior to authenticating them to the site. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including administrators, granted they have access to the administrator's email.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9289?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Redefiningtheweb Affiliate Pro.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9289?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9289 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9289 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9289 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9289 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in RedefiningTheWeb WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program, published on 1 Oct 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-2024-9289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: RedefiningTheWeb WordPress & WooCommerce Affiliate Program. 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-2024-9289/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9289/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9289
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9289
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9289

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9289/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.