WordPress Booster for WooCommerce plugin <= 7.1.2 - Authenticated Production Creation/Modification Vulnerability
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.40% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: Pluggabl LLC Booster for WooCommerce 7.1.3.
- Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 6.5, NVD 8.8.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Pluggabl LLC Booster for WooCommerce 7.1.3 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Improper Authentication vulnerability in Pluggabl LLC Booster for WooCommerce allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Booster for WooCommerce: from n/a through 7.1.2.
- Published
- Jun 4, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 33th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-287
Report tools
Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 8.8
- CNA · Patchstack
- 6.5
- 2.3 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| booster | booster for woocommerce | cpe:2.3:a:booster:booster_for_woocommerce |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- booster booster for woocommercebefore 7.1.3
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.
Pluggabl LLC Booster for WooCommerce
- n/a and later · up to and including 7.1.2affectedfixed in 7.1.3
Same product
booster: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2021-34646Booster for WooCommerce <= 5.4.3 Authentication Bypass54Plan
- CVE-2024-13342Booster for WooCommerce <= 7.2.4 - Unauthenticated Double Extension Arbitrary File Upload39Monitor
- CVE-2024-13744Booster for WooCommerce 4.0.1 - 7.2.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload39Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2023-52234Mar 28, 2024 · WordPress Booster Elite for WooCommerce plugin < 7.1.2 - Auth. Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability26Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-3957May 2, 2024 · Booster for WooCommerce <= 7.1.8 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution29Monitor
- Later →CVE-2023-51511Jun 4, 2024 · WordPress Booster Elite for WooCommerce plugin < 7.1.3 - Authenticated Production Creation/Modification Vulnerability26Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Pluggabl LLC Booster for WooCommerce | 7.1.3 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Dave Jong (Patchstack)Patchstack Bug Bounty Programfinder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2023-515110 days apartWordPress Booster Elite for WooCommerce plugin < 7.1.3 - Authenticated Production Creation/Modification Vulnerability26Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
- CVE-2024-198689 days apartElite Booster for WooCommerce <= 7.1.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload35Monitor
Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-24-0605 · Jun 7, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-287 · Improper AuthenticationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-287 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middleware
app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);Fixed
const admin = express.Router();
admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
app.use("/admin", admin);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Authentication AbuseCAPEC-114Medium
- Authentication BypassCAPEC-115Medium
- Identity SpoofingCAPEC-151likelihood: Medium · Medium
- Fake the Source of DataCAPEC-194Medium
- Exploiting Trust in ClientCAPEC-22likelihood: High · High
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive DataCAPEC-57likelihood: Medium · Very High
- Session HijackingCAPEC-593likelihood: High · Very High
- Token ImpersonationCAPEC-633Medium
ATT&CK techniques
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.