Cincopa video and media plug-in < 1.137 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.137
- Affected Plugin
- Cincopa video and media plug-in
- Affected Version
< 1.137- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2015-10109
At a glance
CVE-2015-10109 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Cincopa video and media plug-in WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.137. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.137; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2015, reported by Marcin Probola.
Vulnerability Overview
The Cincopa video and media plug-in plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cross-Site Request Forgery via the ‘cincopaafc’ parameter in versions before 1.137 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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)
Cincopa video and media plug-in < 1.137 carries this weakness at cincopaafc, 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 Cincopa video and media plug-in the fix is 1.137: builds < 1.137 are affected, anything from 1.137 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.137, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Cincopa video and media plug-in: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Cincopa video and media plug-in 1.137 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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