Menu Image, Icons made easy <= 3.0.7 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.0.8
- Affected Plugin
- Menu Image, Icons made easy
- Affected Version
< 3.0.8- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2022-0450
At a glance
CVE-2022-0450 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Menu Image, Icons made easy WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 3.0.8. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 3.0.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2022, reported by Krzysztof Zając.
Vulnerability Overview
The Menu Image, Icons made easy WordPress plugin before 3.0.8 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving menu settings, and does not validate, sanitise and escape them. As a result, any authenticate users, such as subscriber can update the settings or arbitrary menu and put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them which will be triggered in the related menu in the frontend
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 Menu Image, Icons made easy < 3.0.8 takes any authenticated account. 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 Menu Image, Icons made easy the fix is 3.0.8: builds < 3.0.8 are affected, anything from 3.0.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.0.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Menu Image, Icons made easy: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Menu Image, Icons made easy 3.0.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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