CVE-2024-9189 (GCVE-0-2024-9189)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-28 02:04
Modified
2026-04-08 17:21
CWE
Summary
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.
Impacted products
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