Sliding Social Icons <= 1.61 - Cross-Site Request Forgery and Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2014-12-15 00:00

Kenneth Jepsen

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginSliding Social Icons

Affected Version<= 1.61

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2014-9437

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Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Sliding Social Icons plugin 1.61 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings via unspecified vectors or (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the sc_social_slider_margin parameter in a wpbs_save_settings action in the wpbs_panel page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9437 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/46039930-377e-4adb-8d96-09ebf220b4a6

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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