WP Maintenance <= 5.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2019-11-19 00:00

Chloe Chamberland

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.0.6

Affected PluginWP Maintenance

Affected Version<= 5.0.5

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2019-19979

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Vulnerability Overview

A flaw in the WordPress plugin, WP Maintenance before 5.0.6, allowed attackers to enable a vulnerable site's maintenance mode and inject malicious code affecting site visitors. There was CSRF with resultant XSS.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.0.6, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19979 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f2fa602-79db-4bb3-a55c-75da59116f06

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

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

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