CVE-2022-1916

Active Products Tables for WooCommerce <= 1.0.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2022-06-01 00:00
cydave

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.0.5
Affected Plugin
Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE 
Affected Version
<= 1.0.4
CVSS
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2022-1916
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At a glance

CVE-2022-1916 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.4. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2022, reported by cydave.

Vulnerability Overview

The Active Products Tables for WooCommerce. Professional products tables for WooCommerce store WordPress plugin before 1.0.5 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the response of an AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users), leading to a Reflected cross-Site Scripting

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.

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

Reaching this weakness in Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE <= 1.0.4 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE the fix is 1.0.5: builds <= 1.0.4 are affected, anything from 1.0.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.0.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Active Woot Products Tables for WooCommerce. 100% FREE 1.0.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1916https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73a83f2b-835b-44cd-9d09-1b4fba3e9c8bhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1916

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