CVE-2019-14792

WP Google Maps <= 7.11.34 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

2019-07-08 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 7.11.35
Affected Plugin: WP Go Maps – Google Map, OpenStreetMap, Leaflet Map
Affected Version: < 7.11.35
CVSS: 6.1Medium
Weakness type: CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE: CVE-2019-14792

View all WP Go Maps – Google Map, OpenStreetMap, Leaflet Map vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2019-14792 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Go Maps WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 7.11.35. 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 7.11.35; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2019.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Google Maps plugin before 7.11.35 for WordPress allows XSS via the wp-admin/ rectangle_name or rectangle_opacity 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.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in WP Go Maps < 7.11.35 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 Go Maps the fix is 7.11.35: builds < 7.11.35 are affected, anything from 7.11.35 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 7.11.35, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WP Go Maps: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP Go Maps 7.11.35 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-2019-14792 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4744edff-d130-4f45-93a0-a67ec91dbe10 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14792

Related records

Same weakness class

Other vulnerabilities in WP Go Maps – Google Map, OpenStreetMap, Leaflet Map

CVSS Vector

6.1

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

Base

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

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