CVE-2023-25707

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.5.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery in save_admin_widgets function

2023-02-15 00:00
Abdi Pranata

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.6.0
Affected Plugin
VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Affected Version
<= 1.5.12
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2023-25707
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At a glance

CVE-2023-25707 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.5.12. 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 1.6.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2023, reported by Abdi Pranata.

Vulnerability Overview

The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5.12. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_admin_widgets function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke this function 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, and no interaction from a victim user.

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

Reaching this weakness in VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.5.12 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 VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS the fix is 1.6.0: builds <= 1.5.12 are affected, anything from 1.6.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.6.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS 1.6.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25707https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2945971-80c6-44a2-bc65-1243af365692https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25707

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