AS – Create Pinterest Pinboard Pages <= 1.0 - Authenticated Options Change to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- AS – Create Pinterest Pinboard Pages
- Affected Version
<= 1.0- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2022-36341
At a glance
CVE-2022-36341 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the AS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed August 2022, reported by ptsfence.
Vulnerability Overview
The Create Pinterest Pinboard Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘as_edit_pins_page’ ajax action using the post_title parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, 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')
AS <= 1.0 carries this weakness at as_edit_pins_page, and reaching it 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for AS yet, so installs running <= 1.0 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?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to AS: 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
- Alerts
External References
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