CVE-2024-8289 Information

Description

The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation/de-escalation and account takeover due to an insufficient capability check on the update_item_permissions_check and create_item_permissions_check functions in all versions up to and including 4.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the password of any user with the vendor role create new users with the vendor role and demote other users like administrators to the vendor role.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a85fbaff-d566-4ed2-8943-c174e0c4d2d8?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/tags/4.2.0/api/class-mvx-rest-vendors-controller.php#L705 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/tags/4.2.0/api/class-mvx-rest-vendors-controller.php#L641 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/tags/4.2.0/api/class-mvx-rest-vendors-controller.php#L382 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor/trunk/api/class-mvx-rest-vendors-controller.php?rev=3145638

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8