LadiApp: Landing Page, PopupX, Marketing Automation, Affiliate Marketing… <= 4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via publish_lp()
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Version
<= 4.4- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2023-4729
At a glance
CVE-2023-4729 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the LadiApp WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.4. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed March 2024, reported by GiongfNef.
Vulnerability Overview
The LadiApp plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to a missing nonce check on the publish_lp() function hooked via an AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the LadiPage key (a key fully controlled by the attacker), enabling them to freely create new pages, including web pages that trigger stored XSS 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)
LadiApp <= 4.4 carries this weakness at publish_lp(), 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for LadiApp yet, so installs running <= 4.4 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to LadiApp: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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- 5.3CVE-2023-4730: LadiApp Missing Authorization
CVE-2023-4730 - 4.3CVE-2023-4626: LadiApp <= 4.4 Missing Authorization
CVE-2023-4626 - 4.3CVE-2023-4728: LadiApp Missing Authorization on publish_lp()
CVE-2023-4728 - 4.3CVE-2023-4627: LadiApp <= 4.4 Missing Authorization
CVE-2023-4627 - 4.3CVE-2023-49158: LadiApp <= 4.3 Missing Authorization
CVE-2023-49158
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