Admin Pack by SITE CASEIRO <= 1.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2015-07-30 00:00
Kenneth Jepsen

Strategic Overview

Status
Unpatched
Affected Version
<= 1.1
CVSS
5.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Admin Pack by SITE CASEIRO WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed July 2015, reported by Kenneth Jepsen.

Vulnerability Overview

The Admin Pack by SITE CASEIRO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'sc_plugin_admin_personalizado_imagem' parameter in the 'admin-pack-sc.php' file in versions up to, and including, 1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated Admin+ attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Admin Pack by SITE CASEIRO <= 1.1 carries this weakness at sc_plugin_admin_personalizado_imagem, and reaching it takes an account at Admin level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Admin Pack by SITE CASEIRO yet, so installs running <= 1.1 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Admin access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.

  • Firewall
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External References

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