CVE-2024-34370· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Patchstack

WordPress EAN for WooCommerce plugin <= 4.8.9 - Arbitrary Option Update to Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 65.2% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce 4.9.0.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce 4.9.0 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 Privilege Management vulnerability in WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects EAN for WooCommerce: from n/a through 4.8.9.

HighCVSS 7.2 · v3.1—Proof of concept Fix available

Published: May 17, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 1.0% · 65th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.0%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 7.2
CNA · Patchstack: 7.2; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
wpfactory	ean for woocommerce	cpe:2.3:a:wpfactory:ean_for_woocommerce

Affected versions

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

wpfactory ean for woocommercebefore 4.9.0

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.

WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce
- n/a and later · up to and including 4.8.9affectedfixed in 4.9.0

Same product

wpfactory: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-48249WordPress EAN for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.4.6 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
26Monitor
CVE-2023-6892EAN for WooCommerce <= 4.9.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via alg_wc_ean_product_meta Shortcode
21Monitor
CVE-2023-0062EAN for WooCommerce < 4.4.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
21Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-6897Apr 18, 2024 · EAN for WooCommerce <= 4.9.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Sensitve Information Exposure via Shortcode
17Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-22673Mar 27, 2025 · WordPress EAN Barcode Generator <= 5.3.5 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
17Monitor

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
WPFactory EAN for WooCommerce	4.9.0	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:2	2025-03-11

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.

PublishedMay 17, 2024
First PoCMar 11, 2025+298 d
TodayOct 24, 2026+890 d

EPSS, last 120 days

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 researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Majed Refaea (Patchstack Alliance)finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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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-24-0505 · May 20, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
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: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

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

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

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)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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References

patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/ean-for-woocommerce/wordpress-ean-for-woocommerce-plugin-4-8-9-arbitrary-option-update-to-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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