CVE-2024-11423
Published: 08 January 2025
Description
The Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce – Create WooCommerce Gift Cards, Gift Vouchers, Redeem & Manage Digital Gift Coupons. Offer Gift Certificates, Schedule Gift Cards, and Use Advance Coupons With Personalized Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on several REST API endpoints such as /wp-json/gifting/recharge-giftcard in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to recharge a gift card balance, without making a payment along with reducing gift card balances without purchasing anything.
Security Summary
CVE-2024-11423 is an unauthorized modification of data vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, which enables creation and management of gift cards, vouchers, and digital coupons. The issue stems from missing capability checks on several REST API endpoints, such as /wp-json/gifting/recharge-giftcard, affecting all versions up to and including 3.0.6. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N), highlighting high integrity impact with no confidentiality or availability effects.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. By sending crafted requests to the affected endpoints, they can recharge gift card balances without payments or reduce balances without purchases, potentially enabling fraudulent manipulation of store credits and financial losses for site owners.
Advisories reference patches in WordPress plugin trac changesets, including 3212554/woo-gift-cards-lite/trunk/includes/giftcard-redeem-api-addon.php and changeset 3208474 for woo-gift-cards-lite. The Wordfence threat intelligence page provides further details on the vulnerability, recommending updates to address the missing capability checks.
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