WP Travel Engine <= 5.8.0 - Unauthenticated Price Manipulation

2024-04-22 00:00
Ananda Dhakal

Vulnerability Overview

The WP Travel Engine – Best Travel Booking WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to price manipulation in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a price. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to manipulate the price of bookings.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.8.1, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-472 (External Control of Assumed-Immutable Web Parameter) The web application does not sufficiently verify inputs that are assumed to be immutable but are actually externally controllable, such as hidden form fields.

External References

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