CVE-2023-35916: WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin <= 5.9.0 is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• automattic woopaymentsbefore 5.9.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Automattic WooPayments – Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo

  • n/a and later · up to and including 5.9.0affectedfixed in 5.9.1

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2023-35915WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin <= 5.9.0 is vulnerable to SQL Injection
  39Monitor
• CVE-2023-51503WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin <= 6.6.2 is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)
  30Monitor
• CVE-2023-49828WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin <= 6.4.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
  21Monitor

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

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