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CVE-2024-10437: WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce <= 4.2.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Message Activation/Deactivation

• 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: 2024-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Smar Message activation/deactivation due to a missing capability check on the ajax_enable function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate or deactivate smart messages.

Affected products

• wpclever WPC Smart Messages for WooCommerce: through 4.2.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpc-smart-messages/tags/4.2.1/includes/class-backend.php#L775
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3177426/wpc-smart-messages/trunk/includes/class-backend.php?contextall=1
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4acb4fda-0217-44b9-a85e-64807eb4a011?source=cve

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