CVE-2024-7870

PixelYourSite – Your smart PIXEL (TAG) & API Manager <= 9.7.1 and PixelYourSite PRO <= 10.4.2 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure and Log Deletion

2024-09-03 00:00
Xetnus

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 9.7.2
Affected Plugin
PixelYourSite – Your smart PIXEL (TAG) & API Manager
Affected Version
<= 9.7.1
CVSS
6.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
CVE
CVE-2024-7870
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At a glance

CVE-2024-7870 is a medium-severity Improper Authentication vulnerability in the PixelYourSite WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 9.7.1. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 9.7.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2024, reported by Xetnus.

Vulnerability Overview

The PixelYourSite – Your smart PIXEL (TAG) & API Manager and the PixelYourSite PRO plugins for WordPress are vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 9.7.1 and 10.4.2, respectively, through publicly exposed log files. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view potentially sensitive information contained in the exposed log files, and to delete log files.

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-287: Improper Authentication

Reaching this weakness in PixelYourSite <= 9.7.1 takes no account at all. Improper authentication means the mechanism that proves who a caller is can be satisfied without the secret it was supposed to require.

An attacker authenticates as another user — administrators included — without ever knowing a password, so password policies and login rate limits never come into play. For PixelYourSite the fix is 9.7.2: builds <= 9.7.1 are affected, anything from 9.7.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 9.7.2, 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: PixelYourSite 9.7.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7870https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7fd7a515-6389-4152-8dac-d5497dd94f6dhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7870

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