Amministrazione Trasparente <= 7.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 7.1.1
- Affected Plugin
- Amministrazione Trasparente
- Affected Version
<= 7.1- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2021-4398
At a glance
CVE-2021-4398 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Amministrazione Trasparente WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.1. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 7.1.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2021, reported by Jerome Bruandet.
Vulnerability Overview
The Amministrazione Trasparente plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 7.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the at_save_aturl_meta() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update meta data 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.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Amministrazione Trasparente <= 7.1 carries this weakness at at_save_aturl_meta(), and reaching it 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 Amministrazione Trasparente the fix is 7.1.1: builds <= 7.1 are affected, anything from 7.1.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 7.1.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Amministrazione Trasparente: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Amministrazione Trasparente 7.1.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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