Store Locator Plus < 4.2.27 - Email Injection
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.2.27
- Affected Plugin
- Store Locator Plus® for WordPress
- Affected Version
< 4.2.27- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Store Locator Plus® for WordPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 4.2.27. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.2.27; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2015, reported by Kacper Szurek.
Vulnerability Overview
The Store Locator Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Email Injection in versions before 4.2.27. This is due to nonce leakage. This makes it possible for attackers to send spam emails from a fake address.
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, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
Reaching this weakness in Store Locator Plus® for WordPress < 4.2.27 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.
Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Store Locator Plus® for WordPress the fix is 4.2.27: builds < 4.2.27 are affected, anything from 4.2.27 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.2.27, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Store Locator Plus® for WordPress 4.2.27 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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- Alerts
External References
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