The Points and Rewards for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to convert and drain any users reward points into wallet balance, exfiltrate all users emails and point balances to an attacker-controlled Klaviyo account, overwrite the sites Klaviyo public API key, block or unblock arbitrary users from the points system, and modify campaign banner and heading settings. The nonce used for authentication of these requests (wps-wpr-verify-nonce) is injected into every public-facing page via wp_localize_script(), and the wps_wpr_generate_custom_wallet handler is additionally registered on the wp_ajax_nopriv_ hook, meaning unauthenticated visitors can also obtain a valid nonce and exploit that specific action.
Weakness
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Potential Mitigations
- Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
- Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
- Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
- For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page.
- One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
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