CVE-2022-38467

CRM Perks Forms <= 1.1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2022-09-30 00:00
Tien Nguyen Ahn

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.1.1
Affected Plugin
CRM Perks Forms – WordPress Form Builder
Affected Version
<= 1.1.0
CVSS
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2022-38467
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At a glance

CVE-2022-38467 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the CRM Perks Forms WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.0. 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 1.1.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2022, reported by Tien Nguyen Ahn.

Vulnerability Overview

The CRM Perks Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the ~/templates/sample_file.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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 CRM Perks Forms <= 1.1.0 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 CRM Perks Forms the fix is 1.1.1: builds <= 1.1.0 are affected, anything from 1.1.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.1.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to CRM Perks Forms: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: CRM Perks Forms 1.1.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38467https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/793df609-77bb-47fd-8383-93884675f217https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38467

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