CVE-2022-45067

Exclusive Addons for Elementor <= 2.6.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2023-01-07 00:00
Muhammad Daffa

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.6.2
Affected Plugin
Exclusive Addons for Elementor
Affected Version
<= 2.6.1
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2022-45067
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At a glance

CVE-2022-45067 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Exclusive Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.6.1. 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 2.6.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2023, reported by Muhammad Daffa.

Vulnerability Overview

The Exclusive Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.6.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the uninstall_reason_submission() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit uninstall reasons for the plugin, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This appears to be a duplicate of CVE-2022-47150.

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)

Exclusive Addons for Elementor <= 2.6.1 carries this weakness at uninstall_reason_submission(), 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 Exclusive Addons for Elementor the fix is 2.6.2: builds <= 2.6.1 are affected, anything from 2.6.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.6.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Exclusive Addons for Elementor: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Exclusive Addons for Elementor 2.6.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45067https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64792dd9-f16b-4929-a2ba-a6f53b2e975fhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-45067

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