Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in PayU CommercePro Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2024-12264

What is CVE-2024-12264?

The PayU CommercePro Plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper identity verification in its REST API endpoints. Specifically, the /wp-json/payu/v1/generate-user-token and /wp-json/payu/v1/get-shipping-cost endpoints lack adequate checks, allowing unauthenticated attackers to manipulate the user ID and authentication cookies. This flaw enables them to gain unauthorized administrative access by creating new admin accounts, compromising the security of WordPress installations using this plugin.

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