CVE-2024-11276

PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more <= 1.2.136 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2024-12-05 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.2.137
Affected Plugin: PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more
Affected Version: <= 1.2.136
CVSS: 6.1Medium
Weakness type: CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE: CVE-2024-11276

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At a glance

CVE-2024-11276 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.136. 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 1.2.137; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by Colin Xu.

Vulnerability Overview

The PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'page' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.136 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, 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')

PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more <= 1.2.136 carries this weakness at page, 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 PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more the fix is 1.2.137: builds <= 1.2.136 are affected, anything from 1.2.137 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.137, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more 1.2.137 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11276 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f21a86b-52f4-4563-afce-32f1949ce5a1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11276

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CVSS Vector

6.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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