Postie <= 1.9.40 - Post Submission Spoofing & Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2020-01-02 00:00

V1n1v131r4

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.9.41

Affected PluginPostie

Affected Version< 1.9.41

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2019-20203

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Vulnerability Overview

The Authorized Addresses feature in the Postie plugin 1.9.40 for WordPress allows remote attackers to publish posts by spoofing the From information of an email message.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.9.41, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20203 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/57a5b6d9-92dc-488a-a3f2-b3c09361aefe

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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