CVE-2024-49633

DirectoryPress <= 3.6.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

2025-01-06 00:00
Dimas Maulana

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.6.20
Affected Plugin
DirectoryPress – Business Directory And Classified Ad Listing
Affected Version
<= 3.6.19
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-49633
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At a glance

CVE-2024-49633 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the DirectoryPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.6.19. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.6.20; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Dimas Maulana.

Vulnerability Overview

The DirectoryPress – Business Directory And Classified Ad Listing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.19. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator 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-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in DirectoryPress <= 3.6.19 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 DirectoryPress the fix is 3.6.20: builds <= 3.6.19 are affected, anything from 3.6.20 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.6.20, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to DirectoryPress: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: DirectoryPress 3.6.20 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49633https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/86b0558b-74ed-4ddd-9b18-e7795cefc00ehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49633

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