WP-EMail <= 2.68.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Log Deletion
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.69.0
- Affected Plugin
- WP-EMail
- Affected Version
< 2.69.0- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2022-1630
At a glance
CVE-2022-1630 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP-EMail WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.69.0. 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 2.69.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2022, reported by Daniel Ruf.
Vulnerability Overview
The WP-EMail WordPress plugin before 2.69.0 does not protect its log deletion functionality with nonce checks, allowing attacker to make a logged in admin delete logs via a CSRF attack
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 WP-EMail < 2.69.0 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 WP-EMail the fix is 2.69.0: builds < 2.69.0 are affected, anything from 2.69.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.69.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WP-EMail: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP-EMail 2.69.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
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