CVE-2024-22305

Contact Form builder with drag & drop - Kali Forms <= 2.3.36 - Insecure Direct Object Reference

2024-01-17 00:00
Revan Arifio

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.3.37
Affected Plugin
Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder
Affected Version
<= 2.3.36
CVSS
6.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2024-22305
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At a glance

CVE-2024-22305 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Kali Forms WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.3.36. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.3.37; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2024, reported by Revan Arifio.

Vulnerability Overview

The Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.36 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access objects they do not have proper authorization to view.

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.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in Kali Forms <= 2.3.36 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Kali Forms the fix is 2.3.37: builds <= 2.3.36 are affected, anything from 2.3.37 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.3.37, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Kali Forms 2.3.37 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22305https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/012a558c-1f80-4f36-85d9-905f4ed0b6cbhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22305

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