Side Cart Woocommerce (Ajax) <= 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.1
- Affected Plugin
- Side Cart Woocommerce | Woocommerce Cart
- Affected Version
<= 2.0- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-0215
At a glance
CVE-2022-0215 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Side Cart Woocommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0. 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 2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2022, reported by Chloe Chamberland.
Vulnerability Overview
The Login/Signup Popup, Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier ), and Side Cart Woocommerce (Ajax) WordPress plugins by XootiX are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the save_settings function found in the ~/includes/xoo-framework/admin/class-xoo-admin-settings.php file which makes it possible for attackers to update arbitrary options on a site that can be used to create an administrative user account and grant full privileged access to a compromised site. This affects versions <= 2.2 in Login/Signup Popup, versions <= 2.5.1 in Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier ), and versions <= 2.0 in Side Cart Woocommerce (Ajax).
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 Side Cart Woocommerce <= 2.0 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 Side Cart Woocommerce the fix is 2.1: builds <= 2.0 are affected, anything from 2.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Side Cart Woocommerce: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Side Cart Woocommerce 2.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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