CVE-2015-9233

CP Contact Form with PayPal < 1.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2015-07-09 00:00
Nitin Venkatesh

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.6
Affected Version
< 1.1.6
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2015-9233
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At a glance

CVE-2015-9233 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CP Contact Form with PayPal WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.1.6. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.1.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2015, reported by Nitin Venkatesh.

Vulnerability Overview

The cp-contact-form-with-paypal (aka CP Contact Form with PayPal) plugin before 1.1.6 for WordPress has CSRF with resultant XSS, related to cp_contactformpp.php and cp_contactformpp_admin_int_list.inc.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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in CP Contact Form with PayPal < 1.1.6 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 CP Contact Form with PayPal the fix is 1.1.6: builds < 1.1.6 are affected, anything from 1.1.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to CP Contact Form with PayPal: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: CP Contact Form with PayPal 1.1.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

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