Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động – MoMo, ViettelPay, VNPay và 40 ngân hàng Việt Nam <= 2.0.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0.1
- Affected Plugin
- Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động – MoMo, ViettelPay, VNPay và 40 ngân hàng Việt Nam
- Affected Version
<= 2.0.0- CVSS
- 7.2High
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022.
Vulnerability Overview
The Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động – MoMo, ViettelPay, VNPay và 40 ngân hàng Việt Nam plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to an including 2.0.0. This is due to missing input sanitization and escaping on several parameters that make it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in web pages that execute when users access those pages.
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, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động <= 2.0.0 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động the fix is 2.0.1: builds <= 2.0.0 are affected, anything from 2.0.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động 2.0.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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