If you own an eCommerce website built on WordPress and powered by WooCommerce plugin, then beware of a new vulnerability that could compromise your online store.
Simon Scannell, a researcher at RIPS Technologies GmbH, discovered an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in the popular WooCommerce plugin that could allow a malicious or compromised privileged user to gain full control over the unpatched websites.
WooCommerce is one the most popular eCommerce plugins for WordPress that helps websites to upgrade their standard blog to a powerful online store. WooCommerce powers nearly 35% of e-stores on the internet, with more than 4 million installations.
Exploiting WooCommerce File-Deletion and WordPress Design Flaws
The attack demonstrated in the following video takes advantage of the way WordPress handles user privileges and WooCommerce file deletion vulnerability, allowing an account with “Shop Manager” role to eventually reset administrator accounts’ password and take complete control over the website.
When installed, WooCommerce extension creates “Shop Managers” accounts with “edit_users” capability, allowing them to edit customer accounts of the store in order to manage their orders, profiles, and products.
In WordPress, an account with “edit_users” capability by default allowed to even edit an administrator account and reset its password. But to draw a permission-based line between an administrator and a shop manager account, the WooCommerce plugin adds some extra limitations on the shop managers.
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