CVE-2017-18356: woocommerce Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-18356 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Code Injection vulnerability in woocommerce. EPSS estimates a 1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 3.2.4.

Timeline

1. 15-01-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Automattic WooCommerce plugin before 3.2.4 for WordPress, an attack is possible after gaining access to the target site with a user account that has at least Shop manager privileges. The attacker then constructs a specifically crafted string that will turn into a PHP object injection involving the includes/shortcodes/class-wc-shortcode-products.php WC_Shortcode_Products::get_products() use of cached queries within shortcodes.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.