CVE-2021-24169

Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce <= 3.1.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2021-03-03 00:00
0xB9

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.1.8
Affected Plugin
Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce
Affected Version
<= 3.1.7
CVSS
6.1Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2021-24169
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At a glance

CVE-2021-24169 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.1.7. 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 3.1.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2021, reported by 0xB9.

Vulnerability Overview

This Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 3.1.8 helps you to easily export WooCommerce order data. The tab parameter in the Admin Panel is vulnerable to reflected XSS.

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')

Reaching this weakness in Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce <= 3.1.7 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 Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce the fix is 3.1.8: builds <= 3.1.7 are affected, anything from 3.1.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.1.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce 3.1.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24169https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d6488ce-e34a-4b23-806d-fa2fb948ea8fhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24169

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