CVE-2024-2441

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.6.7 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Menu Access

2024-04-19 00:00
cyc707

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.6.8
Affected Plugin
VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Affected Version
<= 1.6.7
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2024-2441
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At a glance

CVE-2024-2441 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.6.7. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.6.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by cyc707.

Vulnerability Overview

The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.7 via the option endpoint due to missing validation on the 'task' user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view menus they shouldn't have access to.

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-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS <= 1.6.7 carries this weakness at task, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS the fix is 1.6.8: builds <= 1.6.7 are affected, anything from 1.6.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.6.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS 1.6.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2441https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79e7542f-451b-4391-8367-42a1a93ceb18https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2441

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