WP smart CRM & Invoices FREE <= 1.8.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- WP smart CRM & Invoices FREE
- Affected Version
<= 1.8.7- CVSS
- 5.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2020-25375
At a glance
CVE-2020-25375 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WP smart CRM & Invoices FREE WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.8.7. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed August 2020, reported by ZeroAptitude.
Vulnerability Overview
Wordpress Plugin Store / SoftradeWeb SNC WP SMART CRM V1.8.7 is affected by: Cross Site Scripting via the Business Name field, Tax Code field, First Name field, Address field, Town field, Phone field, Mobile field, Place of Birth field, Web Site field, VAT Number field, Last Name field, Fax field, Email field, and Skype field.
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 smart CRM & Invoices FREE <= 1.8.7 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for WP smart CRM & Invoices FREE yet, so installs running <= 1.8.7 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WP smart CRM & Invoices FREE: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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