CVE-2019-14683

Import and export users and customers <= 1.14.1.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to attachment deletion & Path Traversal

2019-06-22 00:00
Anonymous

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.14.2.2
Affected Version
<= 1.14.1.3
CVSS
6.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2019-14683
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At a glance

CVE-2019-14683 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.14.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 6.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). The issue is fixed in version 1.14.2.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2019.

Vulnerability Overview

The codection "Import users from CSV with meta" plugin before 1.14.2.2 for WordPress allows wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=acui_delete_attachment CSRF.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed. A successful exploit has high impact on integrity.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Import and export users and customers <= 1.14.1.3 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 Import and export users and customers the fix is 1.14.2.2: builds <= 1.14.1.3 are affected, anything from 1.14.2.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.14.2.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Import and export users and customers: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Import and export users and customers 1.14.2.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

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