CVE-2024-1571

WP Recipe Maker <= 9.2.1 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Video Embed

2024-03-14 00:00
catfather

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 9.3.0
Affected Plugin
WP Recipe Maker
Affected Version
<= 9.2.1
CVSS
4.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2024-1571
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At a glance

CVE-2024-1571 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WP Recipe Maker WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 9.2.1. It carries a CVSS score of 4.4 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires an authenticated account. The issue is fixed in version 9.3.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by catfather.

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Video Embed parameter in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with access to the recipe dashboard (which is administrator-only by default but can be assigned to arbitrary capabilities), to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no interaction from a victim user.

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

Reaching this weakness in WP Recipe Maker <= 9.2.1 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 Recipe Maker the fix is 9.3.0: builds <= 9.2.1 are affected, anything from 9.3.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 9.3.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WP Recipe Maker: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WP Recipe Maker 9.3.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1571https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6c098b35-606e-4dde-8683-4c90f518ddb5https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1571

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