CVE-2024-34557

Barcode Scanner with Inventory & Order Manager <= 1.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2024-05-07 00:00
Dhabaleshwar Das

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.5.5
Affected Plugin
Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App) – Inventory manager, Order fulfillment system, POS (Point of Sale)
Affected Version
<= 1.5.4
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-34557
View all Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App) – Inventory manager, Order fulfillment system, POS (Point of Sale) vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2024-34557 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App) WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.5.4. 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 1.5.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2024, reported by Dhabaleshwar Das.

Vulnerability Overview

The Barcode Scanner with Inventory & Order Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the pageSettingsUpdate() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update plugin settings 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)

Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App) <= 1.5.4 carries this weakness at pageSettingsUpdate(), 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 Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App) the fix is 1.5.5: builds <= 1.5.4 are affected, anything from 1.5.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.5.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App): WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Barcode Scanner (+Mobile App) 1.5.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34557https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71e951af-cb01-4c72-b113-e89539d29a4fhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-34557

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