CVE-2023-25066

FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.5.30.7210 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2023-02-02 00:00
Cat

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 7.5.31.7212
Affected Plugin
FV Flowplayer Video Player
Affected Version
<= 7.5.30.7210
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2023-25066
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At a glance

CVE-2023-25066 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the FV Flowplayer Video Player WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 7.5.30.7210. 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 7.5.31.7212; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2023, reported by Cat.

Vulnerability Overview

The FV Flowplayer Video Player plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 7.5.30.7210. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings_toggle() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings 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)

FV Flowplayer Video Player <= 7.5.30.7210 carries this weakness at settings_toggle(), 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 FV Flowplayer Video Player the fix is 7.5.31.7212: builds <= 7.5.30.7210 are affected, anything from 7.5.31.7212 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.5.31.7212, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to FV Flowplayer Video Player: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: FV Flowplayer Video Player 7.5.31.7212 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25066https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/56bbf263-149b-4419-9745-39dc147026a6https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25066

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