Listing, Classified Ads & Business Directory – uListing <= 2.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2021-09-06 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.0.9
Affected Plugin: Directory Listings WordPress plugin – uListing
Affected Version: <= 2.0.8
CVSS: 8.8High
Weakness type: CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE: CVE pending

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At a glance

This record tracks a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Directory Listings WordPress plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.8. 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 2.0.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2021, reported by WPScanTeam.

Vulnerability Overview

The Listing, Classified Ads & Business Directory – uListing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.0.8. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to edit blog settings and post meta 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. 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 Directory Listings WordPress plugin <= 2.0.8 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 Directory Listings WordPress plugin the fix is 2.0.9: builds <= 2.0.8 are affected, anything from 2.0.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.9, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Directory Listings WordPress plugin: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Directory Listings WordPress plugin 2.0.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/284b9b04-aa8f-41ff-b944-3488c5da8e20

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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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