Booking Calendar <= 6.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to SQL Injection

2016-08-01 00:00
Edwin Molenaar

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.2.1
Affected Plugin
Booking Calendar
Affected Version
< 6.2.1
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Booking Calendar WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 6.2.1. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 6.2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2016, reported by Edwin Molenaar.

Vulnerability Overview

The Booking Calendar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 6.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wpdev_get_args_from_request_in_bk_listing function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database via 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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

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

Reaching this weakness in Booking Calendar < 6.2.1 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 Booking Calendar the fix is 6.2.1: builds < 6.2.1 are affected, anything from 6.2.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.2.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Booking Calendar: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Booking Calendar 6.2.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e865324e-a2a2-40fb-8c6a-a89317b59c8c

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