CVE-2022-41615

Store Locator WordPress <= 1.4.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

2022-09-28 00:00
Nguy Minh Tuan

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.4.6
Affected Plugin
Agile Store Locator
Affected Version
<= 1.4.5
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2022-41615
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At a glance

CVE-2022-41615 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Agile Store Locator WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.4.5. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.4.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2022, reported by Nguy Minh Tuan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Store Locator WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.4.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the handle_request function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings and inject malicious web scripts, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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 privileges on the target site. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Agile Store Locator <= 1.4.5 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Agile Store Locator the fix is 1.4.6: builds <= 1.4.5 are affected, anything from 1.4.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.4.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Agile Store Locator: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Agile Store Locator 1.4.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41615https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/62831b8a-2c6c-44cd-9ed1-f188893bed35https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41615

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