CVE-2022-1407

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.5.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to 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
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2022-1407
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At a glance

CVE-2022-1407 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5.8. 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 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 have CSRF check in place when adding a tracking campaign, and does not escape the campaign fields when outputting them In attributes. As a result, attackers could make a logged in admin add tracking campaign with XSS payloads in them via a CSRF attack

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 VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS < 1.5.8 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 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-2022-1407https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64196936-a0b8-48a7-ba5c-01ce061df82chttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1407

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