Login as User or Customer <= 3.8 — Unauthenticated Limited Admin Account Compromise
CVE-2023-7247Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: 3.8 – 3.8No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- High8.1
- CVSS
- 8.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Login as User or Customer — User Switching login-as-customer-or-user
- Affected3.8 – 3.8
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run 3.8 – 3.8. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Login as User or Customer — User Switching.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Login as User or Customer — User Switching to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dmitrii Ignatyev.
The Login as User or Customer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to admin account compromise in version 3.8. This is due to the plugin not validating that the user switching back to the administrative account is the user who initiated the original login as another user. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access administrative user accounts when user switching is in progress by an administrator. Please note that this would be extremely difficult to exploit as it relies on the administrator switching to another user and the attacker knowing the admin users ID and the user ID of the user the admin switched to. It may be possible with social engineering.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Login as User or Customer — User Switching
All 5| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical9.8 | Authentication Bypass ≤3.8Update to 3.9.1 | CVE-2023-51484 | |
| Critical9.8 | Privilege Escalation ≤3.2Update to 3.3 | CVE-2022-4305 | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation ≤1.9Update to 2.1 | — | |
| High8.8 | Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation <1.8Update to 1.8 | CVE-2021-24195 |
- Critical9.8Authentication Bypass
≤3.8Update to 3.9.1
- Critical9.8Privilege Escalation
≤3.2Update to 3.3
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation
≤1.9Update to 2.1
- High8.8Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation
<1.8Update to 1.8
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
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