Gallery for Social Photo <= 1.0.0.27 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Post Duplication
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.0.29
- Affected Plugin
- Gallery for Social Photo
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.0.27- CVSS
- 5.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-2224
At a glance
CVE-2022-2224 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Gallery for Social Photo WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.0.27. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.0.29; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022, reported by Marco Wotschka.
Vulnerability Overview
The WordPress plugin Gallery for Social Photo is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including 1.0.0.27 due to failure to properly check for the existence of a nonce in the function gifeed_duplicate_feed. This make it possible for unauthenticated attackers to duplicate existing posts or pages 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 Gallery for Social Photo <= 1.0.0.27 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 Gallery for Social Photo the fix is 1.0.0.29: builds <= 1.0.0.27 are affected, anything from 1.0.0.29 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.0.29, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Gallery for Social Photo: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Gallery for Social Photo 1.0.0.29 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Gallery for Social Photo
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