CVE-2021-24296

WP Customer Reviews <= 3.5.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-05-04 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 3.5.6
Affected Plugin: WP Customer Reviews
Affected Version: <= 3.5.5
CVSS: 4.8Medium
Weakness type: CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE: CVE-2021-24296

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At a glance

CVE-2021-24296 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.5.5. It carries a CVSS score of 4.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 3.5.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2021, reported by Truoc Phan.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in WP Customer Reviews <= 3.5.5 takes any authenticated account. 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 WP Customer Reviews the fix is 3.5.6: builds <= 3.5.5 are affected, anything from 3.5.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.5.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WP Customer Reviews: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP Customer Reviews 3.5.6 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-2021-24296 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fd67e334-88fd-49c7-a20c-9c2f95e9950c https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24296

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CVSS Vector

4.8

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

Base

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

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