Lightbox Photo Gallery <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2014-12-12 00:00

Kenneth Jepsen

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginLightbox Photo Gallery

Affected Version<= 1.0

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2014-9441

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Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Lightbox Photo Gallery plugin 1.0 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings via unspecified vectors or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (2) ll__opt[image2_url] or (3) ll__opt[image3_url] parameter in a ll_save_settings action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Technical Analysis

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. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9441 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64fd32a1-da2a-42db-9597-06366a34f543

CVSS Vector

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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