WordPress plugin
Simple Registration for WooCommerce <= 1.5.6 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-32511Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.5.6Update to 1.5.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
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?
Simple Registration for WooCommerce woocommerce-simple-registration
- Affected≤ 1.5.6
- Patched in1.5.7
Update to 1.5.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.6. Version 1.5.7 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Registration for WooCommerce.
- 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
- Update to version 1.5.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Simple Registration for WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_).
The Simple Registration for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated users to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
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
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All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation via Role Request Approval ≤1.5.8Update to 1.5.9 | CVE-2025-12095 |
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation via Role Request Approval
≤1.5.8Update to 1.5.9
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.