Easy Call With Twilio <= 1.0.4 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.1.0
- Affected Plugin
- Easy Call With Twilio
- Affected Version
< 1.1.0- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Easy Call With Twilio WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.1.0. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.1.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2022.
Vulnerability Overview
The Easy Call With Twilio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters in versions up to 1.1.0.
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 interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Easy Call With Twilio < 1.1.0 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Easy Call With Twilio the fix is 1.1.0: builds < 1.1.0 are affected, anything from 1.1.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.1.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Easy Call With Twilio: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Easy Call With Twilio 1.1.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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