CVE-2013-5977

Cart66 Lite :: WordPress Ecommerce < 1.5.1.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2014-08-01 00:00
absane

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.5.1.15
Affected Plugin
Cart66 Lite :: WordPress Ecommerce
Affected Version
< 1.5.1.15
CVSS
6.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2013-5977
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At a glance

CVE-2013-5977 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Cart66 Lite : WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5.1.15. It carries a CVSS score of 6.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.5.1.15; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2014, reported by absane.

Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Cart66Product.php in the Cart66 Lite plugin before 1.5.1.15 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create or modify products or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (2) Product name or (3) Price description field in a product save action via a request to wp-admin/admin.php.

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 Cart66 Lite : < 1.5.1.15 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 Cart66 Lite : the fix is 1.5.1.15: builds < 1.5.1.15 are affected, anything from 1.5.1.15 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.5.1.15, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Cart66 Lite :: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Cart66 Lite : 1.5.1.15 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-5977https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20de9544-b2fe-470c-a7a4-b662b59d6d31https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5977

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