CVE-2013-5978

Cart66 Lite :: WordPress Ecommerce < 1.5.1.15 - Cross-Site Scripting

2013-10-11 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
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2013-5978
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At a glance

CVE-2013-5978 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Cart66 Lite : WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5.1.15. 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 1.5.1.15; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2013, reported by absane.

Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in products.php in the Cart66 Lite plugin before 1.5.1.15 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) Product name or (2) Price description fields via a request to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: This issue may only cross privilege boundaries if used in combination with CVE-2013-5977.

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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in Cart66 Lite : < 1.5.1.15 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 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-2013-5978https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d819b54-f057-4875-8e40-f5c77db2e5fdhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5978

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