CVE-2019-17234

IgniteUp – Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode <= 3.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion

2019-11-10 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 3.4.1
Affected Plugin: IgniteUp – Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode
Affected Version: < 3.4.1
CVSS: 7.5High
Weakness type: CWE-73 · External Control of File Name or Path
CVE: CVE-2019-17234

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At a glance

CVE-2019-17234 is a high-severity External Control of File Name or Path vulnerability in the IgniteUp WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 3.4.1. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.4.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2019, reported by Jerome Bruandet.

Vulnerability Overview

includes/class-coming-soon-creator.php in the igniteup plugin through 3.4 for WordPress allows unauthenticated arbitrary file deletion.

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, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.

CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path

The product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations.

Remediation

Update to version 3.4.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: IgniteUp 3.4.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17234 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4a1a4186-216e-4ed1-860c-fe345ac6e62a https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17234

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in IgniteUp – Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode

CVSS Vector

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone

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