CVE-2022-0914

Export All URLs <= 4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Sensitive Data Export

2022-03-21 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 4.3
Affected Plugin: Export All URLs
Affected Version: < 4.3
CVSS: 6.5Medium
Weakness type: CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE: CVE-2022-0914

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At a glance

CVE-2022-0914 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Export All URLs WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 4.3. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2022, reported by Asif Nawaz Minhas.

Vulnerability Overview

The Export All URLs WordPress plugin before 4.3 does not have CSRF in place when exporting data, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin export all posts and pages (including private and draft) into an arbitrary CSV file, which the attacker can then download and retrieve the list of titles for example

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.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Export All URLs < 4.3 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 Export All URLs the fix is 4.3: builds < 4.3 are affected, anything from 4.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Export All URLs: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Export All URLs 4.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0914 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5ac8e551-7995-4201-b711-87773da1be9e https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0914

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Export All URLs

CVSS Vector

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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