Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks <= 1.2.3 - Open Redirect via setup_plugin
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2.4
- Affected Plugin
- Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks
- Affected Version
<= 1.2.3- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
- CVE
CVE-2023-38478
At a glance
CVE-2023-38478 is a medium-severity URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.3. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2023, reported by Phd.
Vulnerability Overview
The Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in versions up to, and including, 1.2.3. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect url supplied by the user in the setup_plugin function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into performing an action.
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-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Reaching this weakness in Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks <= 1.2.3 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. An open redirect is a page that takes a destination from the request and sends the browser there without checking that the destination belongs to the site.
A link that starts on a trusted domain finishes on an attacker's, which is what makes phishing and consent-screen abuse credible to the person clicking it. For Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks the fix is 1.2.4: builds <= 1.2.3 are affected, anything from 1.2.4 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2.4, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Integration for WooCommerce and QuickBooks 1.2.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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