Seamless Donations: A Platform for Global Fundraising and Rebuilding using Stripe and PayPal <= 5.1.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Chage
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.1.8
- Affected Plugin
- Seamless Donations is Sunset
- Affected Version
<= 5.1.7- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-1610
At a glance
CVE-2022-1610 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Seamless Donations is Sunset WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.1.7. 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 5.1.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022, reported by Daniel Ruf.
Vulnerability Overview
The Seamless Donations WordPress plugin before 5.1.8 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack
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 Seamless Donations is Sunset <= 5.1.7 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 Seamless Donations is Sunset the fix is 5.1.8: builds <= 5.1.7 are affected, anything from 5.1.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 5.1.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Seamless Donations is Sunset: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Seamless Donations is Sunset 5.1.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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