Website Article Monetization By MageNet <= 1.0.11 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.12
- Affected Plugin
- Website Article Monetization By MageNet
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.11- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2024-1379
At a glance
CVE-2024-1379 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Website Article Monetization By MageNet WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.11. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.12; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Krzysztof Zając.
Vulnerability Overview
The Website Article Monetization By MageNet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'abp_auth_key' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping and a missing authorization check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Website Article Monetization By MageNet <= 1.0.11 carries this weakness at abp_auth_key, and reaching it takes no account at all. 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 Website Article Monetization By MageNet the fix is 1.0.12: builds <= 1.0.11 are affected, anything from 1.0.12 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.12, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Website Article Monetization By MageNet 1.0.12 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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