CVE-2022-3194

Dokan <= 3.6.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2022-09-28 00:00
Anonymous

Strategic Overview

At a glance

CVE-2022-3194 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.6.5. 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 3.6.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2022.

Vulnerability Overview

The Dokan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.6.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the setup_wizard function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change settings in the setup process, via 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. 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 Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 3.6.5 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 Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution the fix is 3.6.6: builds <= 3.6.5 are affected, anything from 3.6.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.6.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Dokan: AI Powered WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution 3.6.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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