Social Media Widget by Acurax <= 3.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Cross-Site Scripting via the recordsArray Parameter

2018-01-02 00:00

Panagiotis Vagenas

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.2.6

Affected PluginSocial Media Widget by Acurax

Affected Version< 3.2.6

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2018-6357

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Vulnerability Overview

The acx_asmw_saveorder_callback function in function.php in the acurax-social-media-widget plugin before 3.2.6 for WordPress has CSRF via the recordsArray parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, with resultant social_widget_icon_array_order XSS.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.2.6, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6357 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af7d935b-05a2-4eaa-af98-4e6a88abab46

CVSS Vector

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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