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CVE-2024-0201: Product Expiry for WooCommerce <= 2.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Plugin Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Product Expiry for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'save_settings' function in versions up to, and including, 2.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above to update plugin settings. CVE-2023-52179 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

Affected products

• WebCodingPlace Product Expiry for WooCommerce: before 2.6 — fixed in 2.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WebCodingPlace Product Expiry for WooCommerce 2.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-expiry-for-woocommerce/tags/2.5/product-expiry-for-woocommerce.php#L263
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-expiry-for-woocommerce/tags/2.6/product-expiry-for-woocommerce.php?rev=3014924#L263
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c4006612-770a-482f-a8c2-e62f607914a9?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-expiry-for-woocommerce/tags/2.5/product-expiry-for-woocommerce.php#L263
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/product-expiry-for-woocommerce/tags/2.6/product-expiry-for-woocommerce.php?rev=3014924#L263
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c4006612-770a-482f-a8c2-e62f607914a9?source=cve

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