CVE-2024-24710

Feed Them Social <= 4.2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via review_nag_check

2024-01-31 00:00
Abdi Pranata

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.2.1
Affected Plugin
Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries
Affected Version
<= 4.2.0
CVSS
3.5Low
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-24710
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At a glance

CVE-2024-24710 is a low-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Feed Them Social WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 3.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 4.2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2024, reported by Abdi Pranata.

Vulnerability Overview

The Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'review_nag_check' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to dismiss admin notifications 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.

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

Feed Them Social <= 4.2.0 carries this weakness at review_nag_check, 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 Feed Them Social the fix is 4.2.1: builds <= 4.2.0 are affected, anything from 4.2.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.2.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Feed Them Social: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Feed Them Social 4.2.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24710https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e86152a6-cd8d-4466-bcc5-830413500e12https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24710

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