CVE-2022-40198

TeraWallet – For WooCommerce <= 1.3.24 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via admin_options

2023-02-15 00:00
Muhammad Daffa

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.4.0
Affected Plugin
Wallet for WooCommerce
Affected Version
<= 1.3.24
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2022-40198
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At a glance

CVE-2022-40198 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Wallet for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.24. 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 1.4.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2023, reported by Muhammad Daffa.

Vulnerability Overview

The TeraWallet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.3.24. This is due to missing nonce validation on the admin_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings, via 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 Wallet for WooCommerce <= 1.3.24 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 Wallet for WooCommerce the fix is 1.4.0: builds <= 1.3.24 are affected, anything from 1.4.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.4.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Wallet for WooCommerce: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Wallet for WooCommerce 1.4.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40198https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d274f8b1-0f7c-44cc-8063-3d04a33a9404https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40198

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