CVE-2022-4872: WooCommerce Chained Products < 2.12.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update to 'no'

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Chained Products WordPress plugin before 2.12.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks, as well as does not ensure that the option to be updated belong to the plugin, allowing unauthenticated attackers to set arbitrary options to 'no'

Affected products

Chained Products: before 2.12.0 — fixed in 2.12.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Chained Products 2.12.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c76a1c0b-8a5b-4639-85b6-9eebc63c3aa6
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c76a1c0b-8a5b-4639-85b6-9eebc63c3aa6

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