CVE-2022-1409

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.5.8 - Arbitrary File Upload

2022-04-21 00:00
Gabriel3476

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.5.9
Affected Plugin
VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Affected Version
< 1.5.8
CVSS
5.5Medium
Weakness type
CWE-434 · Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE
CVE-2022-1409
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At a glance

CVE-2022-1409 is a medium-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type 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 1.5.9; 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 properly validate images, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to upload PHP files disguised as images and containing malicious PHP code

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-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Reaching this weakness in VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS < 1.5.8 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. An unrestricted file upload lets a caller store a file whose type or destination the application does not properly constrain.

If an uploaded file lands anywhere the server will execute, the flaw becomes remote code execution and the site should be treated as fully compromised. For VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS the fix is 1.5.9: builds < 1.5.8 are affected, anything from 1.5.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.5.9, 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. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS 1.5.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1409https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6c3f4796-3496-4786-9afb-bd32827764ffhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1409

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