Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.2
- Affected Plugin
- LuckyWP Scripts Control
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.1- CVSS
- 5.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2023-29239
At a glance
CVE-2023-29239 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the LuckyWP Scripts Control WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.2.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2023, reported by Elliot.
Vulnerability Overview
The LuckyWP Scripts Control plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions in the /admin/controllers/ItemController.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add, edit, delete, enable, disable, and sort items 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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in LuckyWP Scripts Control <= 1.2.1 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 LuckyWP Scripts Control the fix is 1.2.2: builds <= 1.2.1 are affected, anything from 1.2.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to LuckyWP Scripts Control: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: LuckyWP Scripts Control 1.2.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in LuckyWP Scripts Control
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