Rara One Click Demo Import <= 1.2.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3.0
- Affected Plugin
- Rara One Click Demo Import
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.9- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-29451
At a glance
CVE-2022-29451 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Rara One Click Demo Import WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.9. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2022, reported by R3N0.
Vulnerability Overview
A Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Rara One Click Demo Import plugin <= 1.2.9 allows attackers to trick logged-in admin users into uploading dangerous files into /wp-content/uploads/ directory.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Rara One Click Demo Import <= 1.2.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Rara One Click Demo Import the fix is 1.3.0: builds <= 1.2.9 are affected, anything from 1.3.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Rara One Click Demo Import: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Rara One Click Demo Import 1.3.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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