Order Tracking Pro <= 3.3.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.3.7
- Affected Plugin
- Order Tracking – WordPress Status Tracking Plugin
- Affected Version
<= 3.3.6- CVSS
- 4.7Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2023-4500
At a glance
CVE-2023-4500 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Order Tracking WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.3.6. It carries a CVSS score of 4.7 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.3.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2023, reported by Marco Wotschka.
Vulnerability Overview
The Order Tracking Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the order status parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.3.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers (admin or higher) to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Order Tracking <= 3.3.6 takes an account at Administrator level or above. 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 Order Tracking the fix is 3.3.7: builds <= 3.3.6 are affected, anything from 3.3.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.3.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Order Tracking 3.3.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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