CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-28121
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
An issue in WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress (versions 5.6.1 and lower) allows an unauthenticated attacker to send requests on behalf of an elevated user, like administrator. This allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain admin access on a site that has the affected version of the plugin activated.
Affected configurations
• automattic woocommerce payments (>= 4.8.0 < 4.8.2)
• automattic woocommerce payments (>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.4)
• automattic woocommerce payments (>= 5.1.0 < 5.1.3)
• automattic woocommerce payments (>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.2)
• automattic woocommerce payments (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.2)
• automattic woopayments (>= 5.6.0 < 5.6.2)
• automattic woopayments 4.9.0
• automattic woopayments 5.3.0
• automattic woopayments 5.4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://developer.woocommerce.com/2023/03/23/critical-vulnerability-detected-in-woocommerce-payments-what-you-need-to-know/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.rcesecurity.com/2023/07/patch-diffing-cve-2023-28121-to-compromise-a-woocommerce/ www.rcesecurity.com
- https://developer.woocommerce.com/2023/03/23/critical-vulnerability-detected-in-woocommerce-payments-what-you-need-to-know/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.rcesecurity.com/2023/07/patch-diffing-cve-2023-28121-to-compromise-a-woocommerce/ www.rcesecurity.com