CVE-2022-0598

Login with phone number <= 1.3.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2022-07-05 00:00
Michal Lipinski

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.8
Affected Plugin
OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification
Affected Version
<= 1.3.7
CVSS
5.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2022-0598
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At a glance

CVE-2022-0598 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.7. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2022, reported by Michal Lipinski.

Vulnerability Overview

The Login with phone number WordPress plugin through 1.3.7 do not sanitise and escape plugin settings which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

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 interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification <= 1.3.7 takes an account at Admin level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification the fix is 1.3.8: builds <= 1.3.7 are affected, anything from 1.3.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Admin access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification 1.3.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0598https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f76e294-1b17-4125-b85c-af7957de1c13https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0598

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