WP Google Map <= 1.7.6 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.7.7
- Affected Plugin
- Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress – WP Google Map
- Affected Version
<= 1.7.6- CVSS
- 4.8Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2021-24502
At a glance
CVE-2021-24502 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7.6. It carries a CVSS score of 4.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.7.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2021, reported by Pratik Khalane.
Vulnerability Overview
The WP Google Map WordPress plugin before 1.7.7 did not sanitise or escape the Map Title before outputting them in the page, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue by high privilege users, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress <= 1.7.6 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress the fix is 1.7.7: builds <= 1.7.6 are affected, anything from 1.7.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.7.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress 1.7.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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External References
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