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CVE-2024-11281: WooCommerce Point of Sale <= 6.1.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary User Email Change

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WooCommerce Point of Sale plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.0. This is due to insufficient validation on the 'logged_in_user_id' value when option values are empty and the ability for attackers to change the email of arbitrary user accounts. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the email of arbitrary user accounts, including administrators, and reset their password to gain access to the account.

Affected products

• Webkul WooCommerce Point of Sale: through 6.1.0

References

• https://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-woocommerce-pos-system-point-of-sale/21254976
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2a0671b1-1414-4315-8a2d-bd1aabe091a4?source=cve

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