CVE-2023-37985

Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering by Five Star Plugins <= 2.4.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via maybe_duplicate_item

2023-07-17 00:00
Elliot

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.4.7
Affected Plugin
Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering
Affected Version
< 2.4.7
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2023-37985
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At a glance

CVE-2023-37985 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.4.7. 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 2.4.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2023, reported by Elliot.

Vulnerability Overview

The Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering by Five Star Plugins plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'maybe_duplicate_item' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to duplicate menu items 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)

Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering < 2.4.7 carries this weakness at maybe_duplicate_item, 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 Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering the fix is 2.4.7: builds < 2.4.7 are affected, anything from 2.4.7 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.4.7, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering 2.4.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-37985https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/044c34da-ee4e-4c18-bf9e-96a49a5ea7d9https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-37985

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