CVE-2024-34827

Translate Multilingual sites – TranslatePress <= 2.7.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2024-05-09 00:00
Dhabaleshwar Das

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.7.6
Affected Plugin
TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation
Affected Version
<= 2.7.5
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-34827
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At a glance

CVE-2024-34827 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the TranslatePress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.7.5. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.7.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2024, reported by Dhabaleshwar Das.

Vulnerability Overview

The Translate Multilingual sites – TranslatePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the trp_prepare_options_for_database_optimization() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger a database optimization via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

TranslatePress <= 2.7.5 carries this weakness at trp_prepare_options_for_database_optimization(), and reaching it 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 TranslatePress the fix is 2.7.6: builds <= 2.7.5 are affected, anything from 2.7.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.7.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to TranslatePress: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: TranslatePress 2.7.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34827https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/571fd575-ff03-465f-9e3c-574e93586396https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-34827

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