Mautic Integration for WooCommerce < 1.0.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Arbitrary Options Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.3
- Affected Plugin
- Mautic Integration for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
< 1.0.3- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-4426
At a glance
CVE-2022-4426 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Mautic Integration for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.0.3. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2022, reported by WPScanTeam.
Vulnerability Overview
The Mautic Integration for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, but not including, 1.0.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation when updating plugin settings. Further, the options being updated are not checked properly to restrict them to the plugin's own settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary WordPress options 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)
Reaching this weakness in Mautic Integration for WooCommerce < 1.0.3 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 Mautic Integration for WooCommerce the fix is 1.0.3: builds < 1.0.3 are affected, anything from 1.0.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.3, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Mautic Integration for WooCommerce: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Mautic Integration for WooCommerce 1.0.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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