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CVE-2024-6636: WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WooCommerce - Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'woo_slg_login_email' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the default role to Administrator while registering for an account.

Affected products

• WPWeb WooCommerce - Social Login: before 2.7.4 — fixed in 2.7.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WPWeb WooCommerce - Social Login 2.7.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://codecanyon.net/item/social-login-wordpress-woocommerce-plugin/8495883
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/77ea4ba8-6c13-494a-92e3-12643003635b?source=cve
• https://codecanyon.net/item/social-login-wordpress-woocommerce-plugin/8495883
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/77ea4ba8-6c13-494a-92e3-12643003635b?source=cve

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