CVE-2024-32443

Download IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.34.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2024-04-12 00:00
Majed Refaea

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.34.3
Affected Plugin
IP2Location Country Blocker
Affected Version
<= 2.34.2
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-32443
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At a glance

CVE-2024-32443 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the IP2Location Country Blocker WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.34.2. 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 2.34.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Majed Refaea.

Vulnerability Overview

The Download IP2Location Country Blocker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.34.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the validate_api_key() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to replace the API key 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)

IP2Location Country Blocker <= 2.34.2 carries this weakness at validate_api_key(), 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 IP2Location Country Blocker the fix is 2.34.3: builds <= 2.34.2 are affected, anything from 2.34.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.34.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to IP2Location Country Blocker: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: IP2Location Country Blocker 2.34.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-32443https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e8d038d-8e2d-442d-932d-0fd31a8c501chttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32443

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