Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 0.9
- Affected Plugin
- Mantenimiento web
- Affected Version
<= 0.8- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-38075
At a glance
CVE-2022-38075 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Mantenimiento web WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 0.8. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 0.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2022, reported by Rasi.
Vulnerability Overview
The Mantenimiento web plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 0.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the vista_configuracion() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings and inject malicious JavaScripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. While the official CVE records indicates this was present in versions up to 0.13, we found that this functionality was only vulnerable up to version 0.9.
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)
Mantenimiento web <= 0.8 carries this weakness at vista_configuracion(), 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. For Mantenimiento web the fix is 0.9: builds <= 0.8 are affected, anything from 0.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 0.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Mantenimiento web: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Mantenimiento web 0.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Mantenimiento web
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