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CVE-2024-9189: EU/UK VAT Manager for WooCommerce <= 2.12.12 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2024-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The EU/UK VAT Manager for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the alg_wc_eu_vat_exempt_vat_from_admin() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.12. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the VAT status for any order.

Affected products

• wpcodefactory EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCommerce: before 2.12.14 — fixed in 2.12.14

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpcodefactory EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCommerce 2.12.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/eu-vat-for-woocommerce/tags/2.12.12/includes/class-alg-wc-eu-vat-ajax.php#L285
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3158296/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c6db680e-1fd4-420c-98f4-2b6dc5cf6781?source=cve

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