CVE-2024-32437

eCommerce Product Catalog <= 3.3.28 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2024-04-12 00:00
Dhabaleshwar Das

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.3.29
Affected Plugin
eCommerce Product Catalog
Affected Version
<= 3.3.28
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-32437
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At a glance

CVE-2024-32437 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the eCommerce Product Catalog WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.3.28. 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 3.3.29; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Dhabaleshwar Das.

Vulnerability Overview

The eCommerce Product Catalog plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.3.28. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the handle_mode() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change modes 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)

eCommerce Product Catalog <= 3.3.28 carries this weakness at handle_mode(), and reaching it 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 eCommerce Product Catalog the fix is 3.3.29: builds <= 3.3.28 are affected, anything from 3.3.29 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.3.29, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to eCommerce Product Catalog: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: eCommerce Product Catalog 3.3.29 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32437https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e5c0ff52-57c2-447f-bb22-2079607c3217https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32437

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