CVE-2024-6636 (GCVE-0-2024-6636)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-20 07:38 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Summary
The WooCommerce - Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'woo_slg_login_email' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the default role to Administrator while registering for an account.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-23 13:56 UTC
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WPWeb | WooCommerce - Social Login |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.7.3
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| wpweb | woocommerce_social_login |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.7.3
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:wpweb:woocommerce_social_login:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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