Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0.5
- Affected Plugin
- Download Plugin
- Affected Version
< 2.0.5- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-36345
At a glance
CVE-2022-36345 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Download Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.0.5. 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 2.0.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2023, reported by István Márton.
Vulnerability Overview
The Download Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.0.4. This is due to missing nonce validation on the dpwap_plugin_download_action, dpwap_theme_download, and dpwap_plugin_multiple_download_func functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers toforce an administrator into downloading plugin zips, 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 Download Plugin < 2.0.5 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 Download Plugin the fix is 2.0.5: builds < 2.0.5 are affected, anything from 2.0.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Download Plugin: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Download Plugin 2.0.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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