CVE-2024-4214

Car Dealer <= 4.15 - Authenticated (Admin+) Content Injection

2024-04-25 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 4.16
Affected Plugin: Car Dealer (Dealership) and Vehicle sales
Affected Version: <= 4.15
CVSS: 2.7Low
Weakness type: CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CVE: CVE-2024-4214

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At a glance

CVE-2024-4214 is a low-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') vulnerability in the Car Dealer (Dealership) and Vehicle sales WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.15. It carries a CVSS score of 2.7 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 4.16; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Yash Chauhan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Car Dealer (Dealership) and Vehicle sales plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized content injection due to insufficient input validation in all versions up to, and including, 4.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary content. The originating source of this has not provided much information on how this is an exploitable issues, so we've marked this as informational considering administrators can typically inject content.

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-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Remediation

Update to version 4.16, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Admin access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Car Dealer (Dealership) and Vehicle sales 4.16 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4214 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db25e8f7-07f2-470e-850e-b8cd3388baea https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4214

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Car Dealer (Dealership) and Vehicle sales

CVSS Vector

2.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredHigh
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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