CVE-2022-1408

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.5.7 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2022-04-21 00:00
Gabriel3476

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.5.8
Affected Plugin
VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Affected Version
< 1.5.8
CVSS
5.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2022-1408
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At a glance

CVE-2022-1408 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5.8. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.5.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2022, reported by Gabriel3476.

Vulnerability Overview

The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin before 1.5.8 does not escape various settings before outputting them in attributes, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

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 VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS < 1.5.8 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 VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS the fix is 1.5.8: builds < 1.5.8 are affected, anything from 1.5.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.5.8, 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 1.5.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1408https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ebe215c6-b328-49b7-aed7-e164e1c5f0d0https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1408

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