CVE-2024-12264: PayU CommercePro Plugin <= 3.8.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The PayU CommercePro Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.3. This is due to /wp-json/payu/v1/generate-user-token and /wp-json/payu/v1/get-shipping-cost REST API endpoints not properly verifying a user's identity prior to setting the users ID and auth cookies. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new administrative user accounts.

Affected products

payuplugin PayU CommercePro Plugin: through 3.8.3

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payu-india/tags/3.8.3/includes/class-payu-shipping-tax-api-calculation.php#L187
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3217148%40payu-india&new=3217148%40payu-india&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bf037e4a-2dd7-4296-b86b-635901d2d68f?source=cve

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