MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce <= 1.15.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2023-07-25 00:00
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Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.15.6
Affected Plugin
MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce
Affected Version
<= 1.15.5
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.15.5. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.15.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2023.

Vulnerability Overview

The MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘set_sender_location’ parameter saved via the 'settings_init' function hooked via admin_init in versions up to, and including, 1.15.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce <= 1.15.5 carries this weakness at set_sender_location, and reaching it takes no account at all. 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 MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce the fix is 1.15.6: builds <= 1.15.5 are affected, anything from 1.15.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.15.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: MultiParcels Shipping For WooCommerce 1.15.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5ce2d08-6e01-4a7c-a2d5-ba98639107a8

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