CVE-2014-8754

Ad Manager <= 1.1.2 - Open Redirection

2014-11-26 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Unpatched
Affected Plugin: wordpress-admanager
Affected Version: <= 1.1.2
CVSS: 6.5Medium
Weakness type: CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
CVE: CVE-2014-8754

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At a glance

CVE-2014-8754 is a medium-severity URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the wordpress-admanager WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1.2. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed November 2014, reported by Jing Wang.

Vulnerability Overview

Open redirect vulnerability in track-click.php in the Ad-Manager plugin 1.1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the out parameter.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Reaching this weakness in wordpress-admanager <= 1.1.2 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. An open redirect is a page that takes a destination from the request and sends the browser there without checking that the destination belongs to the site.

A link that starts on a trusted domain finishes on an attacker's, which is what makes phishing and consent-screen abuse credible to the person clicking it. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for wordpress-admanager yet, so installs running <= 1.1.2 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to wordpress-admanager: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8754 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c19d9288-39b2-4db1-abc6-ba87f98fecad https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8754

CVSS Vector

6.5

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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