WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Hippoo Mobile App for WooCommerce < 1.9.5 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass to Administrator Account Takeover via REST API

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to an authentication bypass leading to administrator account takeover due to a logic conflation in `HippooPermissions::get_user_permissions()`, which returns the same null sentinel for both administrators and unauthenticated visitors — a value that `HippooPermissions::has_role_access()` unconditionally interprets as full administrator access. This causes `override_extension_permission_callback()` to assign `__return_true` as the permission callback for every WordPress and WooCommerce REST route cloned under `/wc-hippoo/v1/ext/` by `HippooControllerWithAuth::re_register_external_routes()`, while the `block_unauthorized_access()` pre-dispatch guard fails to block unauthenticated users for the same reason. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke any core REST endpoint without credentials — most critically, sending a POST request to `/wc-hippoo/v1/ext/wp/v2/users/<id>` with a `{"password":"<new_password>"}` body to reset the password of any user, including the site administrator, and gain full administrative control of the site.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.9.5

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Mitchell
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-06-05 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-06-05 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-21 (about 8 hours ago)

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