miniOrange's Google Authenticator <= 5.4.52 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Deletion

2022-02-28 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.5

Affected PluginminiOrange 2FA – Two Factor Authentication for WordPress (OTP, SMS, Email, Google Authenticator)

Affected Version<= 5.4.52

CVSS8.1High

CVECVE-2022-0229

View all miniOrange 2FA – Two Factor Authentication for WordPress (OTP, SMS, Email, Google Authenticator) vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The miniOrange's Google Authenticator WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF checks when handling the reconfigureMethod, and does not validate the parameters passed to it properly. As a result, unauthenticated users could delete arbitrary options from the blog, making it unusable.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.5, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0229 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f53875aa-9347-464c-aaeb-e8248628fca2

CVSS Vector

8.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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