Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce <= 2.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via render_review_request_notice
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0.4
- Affected Plugin
- Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 2.0.3- CVSS
- 4.7Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2024-8499
At a glance
CVE-2024-8499 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.3. It carries a CVSS score of 4.7 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by vgo0.
Vulnerability Overview
The Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘render_review_request_notice’ function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce <= 2.0.3 carries this weakness at render_review_request_notice, and reaching it 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 Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce the fix is 2.0.4: builds <= 2.0.3 are affected, anything from 2.0.4 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0.4, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce 2.0.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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