Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.2
- Affected Plugin
- Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout
- Affected Version
< 2.2- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2018-11633
At a glance
CVE-2018-11633 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high integrity impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2018, reported by ThreatPress.
Vulnerability Overview
An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS WooCommerce Checkout for Digital Goods plugin 2.1 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker (via spear phishing/social engineering), the attacker can change the plugin settings. The function woo_checkout_settings_page in the file class-woo-checkout-for-digital-goods-admin.php doesn't do any check against wp-admin/admin-post.php Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and user capabilities.
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 integrity.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout < 2.2 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 Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout the fix is 2.2: builds < 2.2 are affected, anything from 2.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout 2.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout
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