Impact
The vulnerability in Cart Weight for WooCommerce arises from a missing authorization check, which allows an attacker to manipulate shipping weight settings. This broken access control can lead to incorrect shipping cost calculation, potentially resulting in financial loss or customer dissatisfaction. The flaw is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization.
Affected Systems
Affects the Octolize Shipping Plugins Cart Weight for WooCommerce plugin for versions 1.9.11 and earlier. Users running any of these versions should consider them vulnerable.
Risk and Exploitability
The CVSS score of 5.3 indicates a moderate impact, while the EPSS score below 1% suggests a low likelihood of exploitation at this time. The attack vector is inferred to be remote, via authenticated or unauthenticated requests to the plugin’s admin interface, possibly exploiting insufficient permission checks. The vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
OpenCVE Enrichment