CVE-2024-31343

MP3 Audio Player for Music, Radio & Podcast by Sonaar <= 4.10.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download

2024-04-05 00:00
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Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.0
Affected Plugin
MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar
Affected Version
<= 4.10.1
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-31343
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At a glance

CVE-2024-31343 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the MP3 Audio Player WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.10.1. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by beluga.

Vulnerability Overview

The MP3 Audio Player for Music, Radio & Podcast by Sonaar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file downloads due to insufficient file validation on the load_lyrics_ajax_callback() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files such as wp-config.php.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

MP3 Audio Player <= 4.10.1 carries this weakness at load_lyrics_ajax_callback(), and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For MP3 Audio Player the fix is 5.0: builds <= 4.10.1 are affected, anything from 5.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: MP3 Audio Player 5.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31343https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9576408b-d048-4e36-bc1a-c01c9f586365https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31343

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