CVE-2022-0649

AdRotate – Ad manager & AdSense Ads <= 5.8.22 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Group Names

2022-04-11 00:00
Muhamad Hidayat

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.8.23
Affected Plugin
AdRotate Banner Manager
Affected Version
< 5.8.23
CVSS
5.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2022-0649
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At a glance

CVE-2022-0649 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the AdRotate Banner Manager WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 5.8.23. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 5.8.23; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2022, reported by Muhamad Hidayat.

Vulnerability Overview

The AdRotate WordPress plugin before 5.8.23 does not escape Group Names, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

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')

Reaching this weakness in AdRotate Banner Manager < 5.8.23 takes any authenticated account. 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. For AdRotate Banner Manager the fix is 5.8.23: builds < 5.8.23 are affected, anything from 5.8.23 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.8.23, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to AdRotate Banner Manager: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: AdRotate Banner Manager 5.8.23 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0649https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07c0516b-ee3a-4a80-8db7-e6372bb294a1https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0649

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