CVE-2024-49304

Pinpoint Booking System <= 2.9.9.5.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2024-10-15 00:00
Muhammad Daffa

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.9.9.5.8
Affected Plugin
Pinpoint Booking System – Version 2
Affected Version
<= 2.9.9.5.7
CVSS
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-49304
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At a glance

CVE-2024-49304 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Pinpoint Booking System WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.9.9.5.7. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.9.9.5.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by Muhammad Daffa.

Vulnerability Overview

The Pinpoint Booking System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.9.9.5.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify 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.

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

Reaching this weakness in Pinpoint Booking System <= 2.9.9.5.7 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 Pinpoint Booking System the fix is 2.9.9.5.8: builds <= 2.9.9.5.7 are affected, anything from 2.9.9.5.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.9.9.5.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Pinpoint Booking System: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Pinpoint Booking System 2.9.9.5.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49304https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/982680a5-c534-4038-ae80-e59aa9761174https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49304

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