Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.6.9
- Affected Plugin
- Image Map Pro – Drag-and-drop Builder for Interactive Images
- Affected Version
< 5.6.9- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-45850
At a glance
CVE-2022-45850 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Image Map Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 5.6.9. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.6.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2022, reported by Dave Jong.
Vulnerability Overview
The Image Map Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and excluding, 5.6.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on one of its functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke that function, via 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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Image Map Pro < 5.6.9 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 Image Map Pro the fix is 5.6.9: builds < 5.6.9 are affected, anything from 5.6.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.6.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Image Map Pro: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Image Map Pro 5.6.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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