PT-2019-10173 · Automattic · Woocommerce

Published 2019-01-15 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-20714

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Automattic WooCommerce plugin versions prior to 3.4.6

Description: The logging system of the Automattic WooCommerce plugin is vulnerable to a File Deletion issue. This allows for the deletion of woocommerce.php, which in turn leads to certain privilege checks not being in place. As a result, a shop manager can escalate privileges to admin.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 3.4.6, update to version 3.4.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20714

Affected Products

Woocommerce

References · 4

• 🔥 https://blog.ripstech.com/2018/wordpress-design-flaw-leads-to-woocommerce-rce · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20714 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20714 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20714 · Note