Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib <= 1.0.98 - Administrator+ Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.99
- Affected Plugin
- Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.98- CVSS
- 5.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2022-1945
At a glance
CVE-2022-1945 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.98. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.0.99; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022, reported by Pritam Dash.
Vulnerability Overview
The plugin Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘input’ parameter of the ccsm_sanitize_google_analytics function in versions up to, and including, 1.0.98 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative access to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib <= 1.0.98 carries this weakness at input, and reaching it 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 Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib the fix is 1.0.99: builds <= 1.0.98 are affected, anything from 1.0.99 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.99, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib 1.0.99 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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