ClickBank Affiliate Ads < 1.31 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2015-05-06 00:00

Kaustubh G. Padwad

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.31

Affected PluginAffiliate Ads for cbAds.com

Affected Version< 1.31

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2015-20105

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Vulnerability Overview

The ClickBank Affiliate Ads WordPress plugin before 1.31 does not have CSRF check when saving its settings, allowing attacker to make logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack. Furthermore, due to the lack of escaping when they are outputting, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.31, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-20105 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e579b7fd-141f-4d5f-9e0e-a1e6b985f0b9

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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