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🛡️ CVE-2023-6897 — ean-for-woocommerce

🟡 CVSS 4.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-639 NVD
4.3
CVSS Score
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Description

The EAN for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2 via the the 'alg_wc_ean_product_meta' shortcode due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to expose potentially sensitive post metadata.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-6897 is classified as CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. An object is selected by an identifier from the request without checking the caller owns it.

Affected software

CVE-2023-6897 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ean-for-woocommerce (fixed in 4.9.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 April 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Other advisories for this package

ean-for-woocommerce has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-639
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ean-for-woocommerce — 4.9.3

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