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CVE-2024-8658: myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce – Give Points, Ranks, Badges, Cashback, WooCommerce rewards, and WooCommerce credits for Gamification <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Database Upgrade

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The myCred – Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce – Give Points, Ranks, Badges, Cashback, WooCommerce rewards, and WooCommerce credits for Gamification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the mycred_update_database() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upgrade an out of date database.

Affected products

• saadiqbal Points Management System For Gamification, Ranks, Badges, and Loyalty Rewards Program – myCred: before 2.7.4 — fixed in 2.7.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: saadiqbal Points Management System For Gamification, Ranks, Badges, and Loyalty Rewards Program – myCred 2.7.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3156989/mycred/trunk/includes/mycred-database-upgrade.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20be9a37-9e9f-4791-a27c-e0db007be787?source=cve

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