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WordPress: Strip Payment Plugin Flaw Exposes Customers’ Order Details

A critical vulnerability has recently been discovered in the WooCommerce Gateway plugin for WordPress. Apparently, it has compromised sensitive customer information related to their orders to unauthorized data. On WordPress e-commerce sites, the plugin supported payment processing for over 900,000 active installations. It was susceptible to the CVE-2023-34000 unauthenticated insecure direct object reference (IDOR) bug.

WooCommerce Stripe Payment

WooCommerce Strip Payment is a payment gateway for WordPress e-commerce sites, with 900,000 active installs. Through Stripe’s payment processing API, it enables websites to accept payment methods like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

About the Vulnerability

Origin of the Flaw

The vulnerability originated from unsafe handling of order objects and an improper access control measures in the plugin’s ‘javascript_params’ and ‘payment_fields’ functions.

Due to these coding errors, it is possible to display order data for any WooCommerce store without first confirming the request’s permissions or the order’s ownership (user matching).

Consequences of the Flaw

The payment gateway vulnerability could eventually enable unauthorized users access to the checkout page data that includes PII (personally identifiable information), email a

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