CVE-2023-51486

WooCommerce PDF Invoice Builder <= 1.2.101 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2023-12-27 00:00
Nguyen Xuan Chien

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.2.102
Affected Plugin
PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more
Affected Version
<= 1.2.101
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2023-51486
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At a glance

CVE-2023-51486 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.101. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.102; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2023, reported by Nguyen Xuan Chien.

Vulnerability Overview

The WooCommerce PDF Invoice Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.2.101. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in the /pages/invoice_list.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete invoices via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator 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-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more <= 1.2.101 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 PDF Builder for WooCommerce. Create invoices,packing slips and more the fix is 1.2.102: builds <= 1.2.101 are affected, anything from 1.2.102 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.102, 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 1.2.102 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-51486https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/652367a0-fca2-4313-8217-d8811ada0ab5https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-51486

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